I am trying to display the date from the database. If I do not apply any formatting it displays correctly, but if I apply any formatting it does not display.
Also, how can I display the current date and Time of New York, irrespective of the login location of the user in jstl?
For that version of JSP, make sure that you have the JSTL 1.2 (again, you didn't say which version) jar in your WEB-INF/lib (there's only one jar file needed) and fix your JSTL URI. The one you are using is for JSTL 1.0.