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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Mi...@ubsw.com on 2003/05/09 08:54:48 UTC
RE: current best practices for time zones ADD [OT]
While we are on the timezone issue, I am wondering if there is a standard way to gt a list of available timezones world-wide?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Schneider [mailto:kris@dotech.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:20 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: current best practices for time zones
Assuming you can create a scoped attribute of type String or java.util.TimeZone
called "timeZone", try JSTL:
<fmt:formatDate value="${date}"
pattern="hh:mm:ssa/yyyy.MM.dd"
timeZone="${timeZone}"/>
Quoting Kirby Vandivort <kv...@ks.uiuc.edu>:
> Let's say I want to print the current time (or choose your favorite
> time) from the server to the user's browser.
>
> Currently, I'm storing a Date object in appropriate scope, and when
> I get to the front end, I'm doing something similar to:
>
> <bean:write name="theTime" property="dateObj"
> formatKey="format.time.date"/>
>
> where format.time.date is something like hh:mm:ssa'/'yyyy.MM.dd as an
> example.
>
>
> So, that's the background. I was (naively, I suppose) expecting that
> struts would figure out where the user is coming from, similar to how
> it does language determination, and automatically convert the Date from
> the server's timezone to the user's browser's timezone.
>
> However, this is not happening. All dates are getting printed in the
> server's timezone.
>
> Is there a relatively clean way to handle this? Searching the archive
> returns a few hits from 2001 and I was wondering if there is anything
> new on this. Am I going to have to end up creating Locales on the
> business end and managing everything there, or can I handle this
> presentation-side?
>
> Just curious what others that are a bit closer to the pulse of recent
> struts than I have chosen.
>
> TIA,
>
> --
>
> Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
>
> Email: kvandivo@ks.uiuc.edu 3051 Beckman Institute
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois
> Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave
> Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA
>
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Kris Schneider <ma...@dotech.com>
D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/>
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RE: current best practices for time zones ADD [OT]
Posted by Andrew Hill <an...@gridnode.com>.
The static method TimeZone.getAvailableIDs() will give you a String[] of all
the timezones (or to be more precise their IDs) preset in the JVM. Of course
this list differs with each JVM version - and probably isnt a definitive
list of all the worlds timezones - its also got a lot of redundant
timezones - the same zone with different names or ids, and a fair few
deprecated ones too. Have a good read of the javadocs for the TimeZone
class.
Bit of a dogs breakfast really. :-(
(Not as bad as Calendar and Date though!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Mick.Knutson@ubsw.com [mailto:Mick.Knutson@ubsw.com]
Sent: Friday, 9 May 2003 14:55
To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: RE: current best practices for time zones ADD [OT]
While we are on the timezone issue, I am wondering if there is a standard
way to gt a list of available timezones world-wide?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Schneider [mailto:kris@dotech.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:20 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: current best practices for time zones
Assuming you can create a scoped attribute of type String or
java.util.TimeZone
called "timeZone", try JSTL:
<fmt:formatDate value="${date}"
pattern="hh:mm:ssa/yyyy.MM.dd"
timeZone="${timeZone}"/>
Quoting Kirby Vandivort <kv...@ks.uiuc.edu>:
> Let's say I want to print the current time (or choose your favorite
> time) from the server to the user's browser.
>
> Currently, I'm storing a Date object in appropriate scope, and when
> I get to the front end, I'm doing something similar to:
>
> <bean:write name="theTime" property="dateObj"
> formatKey="format.time.date"/>
>
> where format.time.date is something like hh:mm:ssa'/'yyyy.MM.dd as an
> example.
>
>
> So, that's the background. I was (naively, I suppose) expecting that
> struts would figure out where the user is coming from, similar to how
> it does language determination, and automatically convert the Date from
> the server's timezone to the user's browser's timezone.
>
> However, this is not happening. All dates are getting printed in the
> server's timezone.
>
> Is there a relatively clean way to handle this? Searching the archive
> returns a few hits from 2001 and I was wondering if there is anything
> new on this. Am I going to have to end up creating Locales on the
> business end and managing everything there, or can I handle this
> presentation-side?
>
> Just curious what others that are a bit closer to the pulse of recent
> struts than I have chosen.
>
> TIA,
>
> --
>
> Kirby Vandivort Theoretical and Computational
Biophysics
>
> Email: kvandivo@ks.uiuc.edu 3051 Beckman Institute
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois
> Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave
> Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA
>
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