Re: Freemarker Date Format issue

Monday, March 2, 2015, 10:55:12 PM, FOX427 wrote:

> Thank you Daniel! i will definitely use your advice! One question though,
> what is EEE?

Um... right, one E is enough, and for parting it works both for Mon
and Monday. See:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

"For formatting, if the number of pattern letters is 4 or more, the
full form is used; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if
available. For parsing, both forms are accepted, independent of the
number of pattern letters."

I have learnt something today too... (:

> I know that I will get "Mon" in my case and if i use EEEEEE I
> will get "Monday",

Or if you use EEEE.

> so does that mean I can use E value for each character that I don't
> need to use but have to declare so freemarker won't complain?

FreeMarker has no idea what those E-s mean. As the Manual says, it's
just Java's standard SimpleDateFormat. If SimpleDateFormat throws
exception, FreeMarker will complain.

> Overall,  I like your response because i am learning new stuff here. Also, I
> still don't know how to change Mar to March, I could use if/elseif
> statements and assign full month names to short three letter month names but
> I think there are better ways to do it. Anyway, thanks for your help again.
>
>
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