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[Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "BeanUtils/FAQ" by SimonKitching
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== The Apache Jakarta BeanUtils Frequently Asked Questions Page ==
=== Introduction ===
This page is intended to gather answers to questions that are regularly asked on the beanutils email lists.
If you discovered something about BeanUtils that you think other people may find useful, please edit this page to add that information.
=== Why isn't String -> Date conversion provided by default? ===
Simply because different regions of the world use different date layouts. There isn't any date format that is a reasonable built-in default.
* USA: mm-dd-yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy
* Europe/Pacific: dd-mm-yyyy
* Other popular formats: yyyy-mm-dd, yyyymmdd
If you want BeanUtils to do implicit String->Date conversions for you, then you just need to register a suitable converter for the date
formats you expect to encounter in your input.
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Re: [Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "BeanUtils/FAQ" by
SimonKitching
Posted by Mattias J <mj...@expertsystem.se>.
At 2005-04-28 13:53, you wrote:
>Simply because different regions of the world use different date layouts.
>There isn't any date format that is a reasonable built-in default.
I don't agree. yyyy-mm-dd is the ISO (8601) standard.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
It is used, among others, in the XML Schema date type and for database
representation.
> * USA: mm-dd-yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy
> * Europe/Pacific: dd-mm-yyyy
(In Sweden, which is part of Europe for those who don't know, we rarely use
dd-mm-yyyy)
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