convertDateTime seconds???

[nimo frey]

I have that, to convert my Date-Object into a Local-sensitive manner:

	
<h:outputText value="#{myBean.myDate}">
<f:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="long"/>
</h:outputText>

The output:

February 5, 2009 11:49 AM

BUT I need the seconds, tooo!

When I print this out without converter:

<h:outputText value="#{myBean.myDate}">
</h:outputText>

Thu Feb 05 11:49:51 GMT 2009

But I need the converter and cannot use a pattern as when using a pattern, I guess, the Local-sensitivity does not work.

[Bauke Scholtz]

nimo frey wrote:But I need the converter and cannot use a pattern as when using a pattern, I guess, the Local-sensitivity does not work.

Guess? This makes no sense. Just use a pattern.

[Piotr Swiecicki]

	
<h:outputText value="#{myBean.myDate}">
<f:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="long"/>
</h:outputText>

Have you tried dateStyle="full" instead?
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html

[nimo frey]

Tried it with long, tried it with full:

<f:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="full"/>

but no seconds visible.

Using a pattern such as: <f:convertDateTime pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"/>

works but then it will prints it to that string for ALL Locales !!

I do not understand why dateStyle="full" does not print the seconds.

[Bauke Scholtz]

nimo frey wrote:Tried it with long, tried it with full:

<f:convertDateTime type="both" dateStyle="full"/>

but no seconds visible.

Using a pattern such as: <f:convertDateTime pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"/>

works but then it will prints it to that string for ALL Locales !!

Oh, you want a locale dependent format? OK then

I do not understand why dateStyle="full" does not print the seconds.

Maybe your locale doesn´t "allow" that. Also see the aforementioned javadoc of DateFormat. Here´s an extract of relevance:

... You can pass in different options to these factory methods to control the length of the result; from SHORT to MEDIUM to LONG to FULL. The exact result depends on the locale, but generally ...

So, either life with it or use a fixed pattern.

[nimo frey]

The exact result depends on the locale

Maybe your locale doesn´t "allow" that.

aha. so my browser says me: "Hey, you are not allowed to see the seconds!"

aha..okay.

I use my pattern. thanks:-)