[jira] [Comment Edited] (FREEMARKER-36) Datetime is not accepting timezone

["Daniel Dekany (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Daniel Dekany edited comment on FREEMARKER-36 at 10/6/16 6:40 AM:
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{{"$\{expression}"}} explicitly tells FreeMarker to convert the value of the expression to a string, similarly as {{"Hello $\{expression}!"}} does. So above you have forced FreeMarker to convert {{timeZone}} to string via calling {{toString()}}. The result of {{TimeZone.toString()}} is not parseable as a time zone ID. So try {{<#setting time_zone=timeZone.id>}}. But it would be cleaner if you just use {{Environment.setTimeZone(TimeZone)}} on the Java side (see {{Environment}} layer settings on http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_config_settings.html), before processing the template. (I have assumed that you have to set the time zone per-template, otherwise you would use {{Configuration.setTimeZone}}).


was (Author: ddekany):
{{"${expression}"}} explicitly tells FreeMarker to convert the value of the expression to a string, similarly as {{"Hello ${expression}!"}} does. So above you have forced FreeMarker to convert {{timeZone}} to string via calling {{toString()}}. The result of {{TimeZone.toString()}} is not parseable as a time zone ID. So try {{<#setting time_zone=timeZone.id>}}. But it would be cleaner if you just use {{Environment.setTimeZone(TimeZone)}} on the Java side (see {{Environment}} layer settings on http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_config_settings.html), before processing the template. (I have assumed that you have to set the time zone per-template, otherwise you would use {{Configuration.setTimeZone}}).

> Datetime is not accepting timezone
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FREEMARKER-36
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-36
>             Project: Apache Freemarker
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Tibor Nahalka
>
> In template we have set time-zone as a java TimeZone object. On the input we have timestamp ${timestamp?number_to_datetime}. In the result we see datetime in UTC instead of our timezone.
> On freemarker pages I found that it should depend on timezone:
> These are used to convert a number (usually a Java long) to a date, time or date-time, respectively. This does them same as new java.util.Date(long) in Java, that is, the number is interpreted as the milliseconds passed since the epoch. The number can be anything and of any type as far as its value fits into a long. If the number isn't a whole number, it will be rounded to whole with half-up rule.
> Example:
> ${1305575275540?number_to_datetime}
> ${1305575275540?number_to_date}
> ${1305575275540?number_to_time}
> The output will be something like this (depending on the current locale and time zone):
> May 16, 2011 3:47:55 PM
> May 16, 2011
> 3:47:55 PM



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