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Locale sensitive printing of dates and time

           Summary: Locale sensitive printing of dates and time
           Product: Velocity
           Version: 1.0-Release
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Tools
        AssignedTo: velocity-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: pbv@cutehoor.com


No way (that I could find) to print dates and times in a Locale sensitive way.
In other words, US users see 12/31/03 and others see 31/12/03, and for month
names the correct language should be displayed. Similarly 12 or 24 hour time
formats differ around the world.

I've got a patch that adds some simple DateFormat stuff to the DateTool to get
an appropriate instance, and print using Locale and TimeZone. Very loosly
modelled on the Cocoon formatter, passing in "short", "medium", "long" or "full".

Example usage from my app, where I've got a user bean in scope that stores an
appropriate Locale and TimeZone for each user.
$date.formatDate('medium',$lastReadTime,$user.locale,$user.timeZone)

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