<fmt:formatDate> Tag

The <fmt:formatDate> tag is used to format dates in various ways.

Syntax

&lt;fmt:formatDate
  value="<string>"
  type="<string>"
  dateStyle="<string>"
  timeStyle="<string>"
  pattern="<string>"
  timeZone="<string>"
  var="<string>"
  scope="<string>"/>

Attributes

The <fmt:formatDate> tag has the following attributes:

Attribute	Description	Required	Default Value
value	The date to be displayed	Yes	None
type	DATE, TIME, or BOTH	No	date
dateStyle	FULL, LONG, MEDIUM, SHORT, or DEFAULT	No	default
timeStyle	FULL, LONG, MEDIUM, SHORT, or DEFAULT	No	default
pattern	Custom format pattern	No	None
timeZone	Time zone of the date to be displayed	No	Default time zone
var	Variable name to store the formatted date	No	Display on page
scope	Scope of the variable to store the formatted date	No	Page

<fmt:formatDate> Tag Format Patterns

Code	Description	Example
G	Era designator	AD
y	Year without a century. If the year without a century is less than 10, it is displayed without a leading zero.	2002
M	Month in year. A single-digit month does not have a leading zero.	April & 04
d	Day in month. A single-digit day does not have a leading zero.	20
h	Hour in 12-hour format. A single-digit hour does not have a leading zero.	12
H	Hour in 24-hour format. A single-digit hour does not have a leading zero.	0
m	Minute in hour. A single-digit minute does not have a leading zero.	45
s	Second in minute. A single-digit second does not have a leading zero.	52
S	Millisecond	970
E	Day of the week	Tuesday
D	Day in year	180
F	Day of the week in month	2 (the second Wednesday in the month)
w	Week in year	27
W	Week in month	2
a	a.m./p.m. indicator	PM
k	Hour in 12-hour format	24
K	Hour in 24-hour format	0
z	Time zone	Central Standard Time
'	Escape for text
''	Single quote

Example Demonstration

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>

<html>
<head>
  <title>JSTL fmt:dateNumber Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Date Formatting:</h3>
&lt;c:set var="now" value="<%=new java.util.Date()%>" />

<p>Date Format (1): <fmt:formatDate type="time" 
            value="${now}" /></p>
<p>Date Format (2): <fmt:formatDate type="date" 
            value="${now}" /></p>
<p>Date Format (3): <fmt:formatDate type="both" 
            value="${now}" /></p>
<p>Date Format (4): <fmt:formatDate type="both" 
            dateStyle="short" timeStyle="short" 
            value="${now}" /></p>

Date Formatting (5): &lt;fmt:formatDate type="both" 
            dateStyle="medium" timeStyle="medium" 
            value="${now}" />

Date Formatting (6): &lt;fmt:formatDate type="both" 
            dateStyle="long" timeStyle="long" 
            value="${now}" />

Date Formatting (7): &lt;fmt:formatDate pattern="yyyy-MM-dd" 
            value="${now}" />

</body>
</html>

Example Output:

Date Formatting:

Date Formatting (1): 11:19:43

Date Formatting (2): 2016-6-26

Date Formatting (3): 2016-6-26 11:19:43

Date Formatting (4): 16-6-26 11:19 AM

Date Formatting (5): 2016-6-26 11:19:43

Date Formatting (6): June 26, 2016 11:19:43 AM

Date Formatting (7): 2016-06-26

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