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Class com.openly.dt.FormatDate

com.openly.dt.EncodingDynamicTag
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   +----com.openly.dt.FormatDate

This class helps format date strings.

the date strings to format must be in the form yyyy-MM-dd, yyyy-MM, or yyyy.

Usage: [[@com.openly.dt.FormatDate("2002-05-22")]]
or [[@com.openly.dt.FormatDate(dateParam)]]

There are two customized date formats that can be used.

the parameter "com.openly.dt.ymdformat" sets the format for year-month-day dates, while
"com.openly.dt.ymformat" sets the format for year-month dates At this time, the year-only display format is fixed. The format strings are defined in the java class java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
if there is no custom value set for these params, the the date string is passed through unchanged.
2002-09-06 the year formatting was turning bad data into garbage and not affecting output, so it was removed.
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See Also:
java.text.DateFormat

FormatDate()

getValue(String, Params)

main(String[])

FormatDate
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 public FormatDate()
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getValue
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 public java.lang.String getValue(java.lang.String dateparam,
                                  com.openly.util.Params params)
```
Parameters:
dateparam - if dateparam starts with a ", then the date to format is the literal in quotes in dateparam; otherwise, dateparam is the param name to get the Date or date String.
Overrides:
getValue in class com.openly.dt.EncodingDynamicTag

main
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 public static void main(java.lang.String args[])
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