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UmapenUmapen 

date format on visual force page

In my visual force page I have the following line that display date : 1/21/2010 9:37 PM

<apex:outputField value="{!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
 
 
I want to display date as : Jan 21, 2010 9.37 PM pst
 
Do I have to convert to string in my controller and display parsed data in visual force page?
or
Is there any format that I can give in my style(css) that will display date in the format I want?
 
Thanks
 


Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
Shri kalkoteShri kalkote
It's all about the matter of one 'space'. If you insert the space in value attribute of outputField like:
<apex:outputField value=" {!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in your local timezone and if you remove the space from it like this:
<apex:outputField value="{!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in GMT format.


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bob_buzzardbob_buzzard
I've found that I have to format the date in the controller.  While you can use fields to back tags, you can't execute the methods available for the field type.  I don't know about css, but you could probably do something using JavaScript.


UmapenUmapen
Here is the posting I found for DateTime format, but do not know how to do the date only field format.
 
http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=apex&message.id=7876
 
 
Date Dt = invitation.start_date__c;
String starDate = dt.format('mmm d); not working error in format
 


bob_buzzardbob_buzzard
I don't think you can format a date like that - you'll have to convert it to a date time and format that.
 


UmapenUmapen
Here is the solution to format date field I used. if anyone know better solution let me know
public String getTravelstartDate(){
    String TrvstartDate=' ';
    DateTime Dt = DateTime.valueOf(invitation.Travel_start_date__c +' 00:00:00');
    TrvstartDate = Dt.format('MMM d, yyyy'); 
    return TrvstartDate;    
  }

 
Here is the link to more from documentation for more examples of DateTime format  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
 
<apex:outputText value="{!TravelstartDate}" />
 


danlatdanlat
Hi All,
 
You can also do:
 
<apex:outputText value="Dated: {0,date,E MMM d yyyy}">
     <apex:param value="{!NOW()}" />
</apex:outputText> 
 Format codes in above post link to Java site. 


DanielTDanielT
Hi,
 
I also use the following;
 
<apex:outputText value="{0,date,dd'/'MM'/'yyyy}">
        <apex:param value="{!Non_Stores_Offers__c.Start_Date__c}"/>
</apex:outputText>


Shri kalkoteShri kalkote
It's all about the matter of one 'space'. If you insert the space in value attribute of outputField like:
<apex:outputField value=" {!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in your local timezone and if you remove the space from it like this:
<apex:outputField value="{!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in GMT format.
This was selected as the best answer
sniper_semajsniper_semaj
<apex:outputText value=" {!dto.o.Amount}">
</apex:outputText>
 
I did this on the amount field. but unfortunately when amount is long. ex. 10000000 this will be converted to exponetial number results like 1.0E+7. is there's way to fix this?
 
 


cg512cg512
" It's all about the matter of one 'space'. If you insert the space in value attribute of outputField like:
<apex:outputField value=" {!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in your local timezone and if you remove the space from it like this:
<apex:outputField value="{!invitation.Account_group__r.Submission_Due_Date__c}"/>
it will display time in GMT format. "
 
You nailed it! And what an easy fix. Thanks!