Populating select box with dates

[Dilip kumar]

Hi,

In my JSP page I need to populate the Ship Date drop-down box with last 30 dates in the format 11/08/2004, 11/07/2004, 11/06/2004.... I'm running out of ideas. I really appreciate anu suggestions.

I'm stuck at this point...

<SELECT name='wdate'>
<% Date now = new Date(); %>
<% DateFormat df =  DateFormat.getDateInstance(); %>
<% String s =  df.format(now); %>
<% for (int iCount=0; iCount<31; iCount++) { %>
<% out.print("<OPTION>" + df.format(now) + "</OPTION>"); %> 
<% } %>
</SELECT>

Thanks much.

[ernest fakudze]

Hi Dilip,

You need to use the caledar class to do this. Please see some code I've just written for you below.

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 
public class DateCalculator
{
 
    Date todaysDate;
    SimpleDateFormat myFormatter;
    String formattedDate;
    Calendar myCal;
 

    public DateCalculator()
    {
        myCal = Calendar.getInstance();       
        todaysDate  = new Date();
        myCal.add( Calendar.DATE , +1 );
        for( int i = 0; i  < 32; i++) {
myCal.add( Calendar.DATE , -1 );
todaysDate = myCal.getTime();
myFormatter =  new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
formattedDate = myFormatter.format( todaysDate );
System.out.println(  formattedDate );
        } // end for
        
    }
 
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        new DateCalculator();
    } //end main
 
} // end class DateCalculator

[Dilip kumar]

Thanks a million for your time. It worked !!