com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.datetime

Interface DateFormatService

@ExperimentalApi
public interface DateFormatService

A service to help format dates

Since:

5.5

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getDateFormatPatternForUser()
java.lang.String	getFormattedDateByUserLocale(org.joda.time.LocalDateTime date) Format the given date in an appropriate format according to the user's locale.

Method Detail

getFormattedDateByUserLocale

java.lang.String getFormattedDateByUserLocale(org.joda.time.LocalDateTime date)

Format the given date in an appropriate format according to the user's locale. This can be used to display date to the user. Note that this does not perform timezone conversion.

Parameters:

date - the date to format

Returns:

the date formatted accordingly in the current user's locale

getDateFormatPatternForUser

java.lang.String getDateFormatPatternForUser()

Returns:

the date format pattern in a string according to the user's locale