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paul-lmipaul-lmi 

controlling output style of dates in VF

We are building a sitemap VF page for our SF Knowledge integration, and I'm trying to force the output of the date to be in a unix-style timestamp.

 

what I want

2010-08-26T09:13:09-05:00

 

what i get

Wed Aug 18 18:52:36 GMT 2010

 

how can i force the system to output a date the way it's actually stored?

SargeSarge

Hi ,

 

   I am afraid we dont have any datetime formatting functions in visualforce rather try the following formatting example in Apex.

 

Datetime dt = System.now();
System.debug(dt.format('yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss Z'));

 

 

  I tried it in execute Anonymous and it resulted out in

 

 

2010-09-08T16:37:58 +0530

 

Hope this helps. The result output will be in String so you can use outputText vf tag.

 
SSRS2SSRS2

Customize format string and try to get answer from following sample

 

 

<apex:outputText value="{0, date,yyyy'-'MM'-'dd':T'hh':'mm':'ss}">
  <apex:param value="{!NOW()}"/>
</apex:outputText>

 

 -Suresh

 
maytawnmaytawn

Beware: apex:outputText value=... doesn't  seem to have a way to change the time zone.  If you are not in the GMT time zone this the technique was not useful.