I am converting a JSP web page to facelets view handler.
What is the equivalent to fmt:formatDate etc.?
I know that it isn't supported. But is there an alternative? A third level implementation?
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I have fields in a Mysql database typed datetime.
I store, for example, a payment's date with next Java code:
payment.setCreatedOn(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
In my view layer I use fmt:formatDate to format dates:
<fmt:formatDate value="${payment.createdOn}" pattern="EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"/>
My ...
I use (GNU) fmt to format longer texts with nice (‘optimal’) line breaks. However, if the text contains any ANSI colour escape sequences (which are never displayed, and only serve to colour the text when displaying it), fmt considers these as normal characters, and calculates the wrong line lengths.
I’m not sure how good literal escape ...