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This is how you get a real date/time-stamp (such as article published date) in Freemarker in Liferay. With support for multilingual sites. When working with multilingual/non-English sites, date/time-stamp can be a bit of a headache as the date strings are strings with english words in them, such as Thu, 08 May 2014 11:48:00 +0000, rather than a …
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| - GETTING REAL TIME/DATE-STAMP | |
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| - When we ask Liferay for the create date of an article (or really we | |
| - ask Liferay for the 'display-date' which is settable by the user) we get | |
| - a string looking like this: 'Thu, 08 May 2014 11:48:00 +0000'. This | |
| - string will always be in english and when we want to create a datetime | |
| - object from it, we need to parse it with english locale. | |
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