Re: freemarker calendar display format with time zone info

Monday, September 29, 2008, 8:58:38 AM, Bionicoder wrote:

> Hi gurus,
>
> I have a question about how to display java.util.calendar  's time zone in
> FTL. The "time zone" I am talking about is the time zone set in calendar,
> instead of the time zone set in local machine.
>
> The problem I got is the parsed FTL always display the local machine's time
> zone and the time based on the local machine time zone. It CAN NOT display
> the time zone set in calendar.  For example, my server's time zone setting
> is America/Los Angles (PDT). One customer object has a calendar time
> property whose time zone is America/new York (EDT). In web page display, it
> always display the PDT time zone, instead of EDT. 
>
> The format I used in FTL is like:
>
>     <p>The customer local time is: ${cal.time?string("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss
> zzz")}</p>
>
> cal is the calendar object which has the time zone different from local
> machine 's time zone.
>
> My app is developed on EJB3, mysql, struts2, JSP + freemarker.  One of
> project's requirement is to display customer's time based on their own time
> zone. Customer class is like:
>
> public Class Customer extends Serializable {
>      private long id;
>      private String name;
>      private Calendar cal;  // calendar time
>
>      ......
> }
>
> Please shed some light if you can. I appreciate it.

FreeMarker has a time_zone setting. Regarding settings and how to set
them please see:

http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_config_settings.html

As you can see there, you can set the time zone before calling the
Template in the Environment, for example based upon the time zone of
the visitor.

> BC

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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