converting epoch time to human readable format using JSF

[terry Kiernan]

Hi ,

I have the following in my xhtml 1.0 trying to convert epoch timestamp say " 1327486488 676088 "

<h:outputText value="#{timestamp}">
                    <f:convertDateTime dateStyle="full" />
</h:outputText>

But it is not converting the timestamp for me ....

Any ideas what i am doing wrong ?

[Tim Holloway]

The time-since-epoch is an internal long-integer variable to the java.util.Date, java.sql.Date and java.util.Calendar classes (assuming I remembered their package names correctly).

The JSF dateTimeConverter will automatically convert to/from a date object, but if your time is naked (long, int or String), the dateTimeConverter can't handle that. You'll need to wrap it in a date object.

[terry Kiernan]

Thanks Tim ,

Can you show me an example how to wrap it in the Date object ?

[Tim Holloway]

Date aDate = new Date(epochTime)