How to print current date in JSP?

Question

I want to do something like this:

 <?php echo date('Y'); ?>

But then in a .jsp file. All the tutorials I'm seeing require building a class somewhere. We're running appFuse and Tapestry. Surely one of those (if not Java itself) provide us with something to do this sort of thing without all that overhead.

This seems like it should work, but doesn't:

 <%= new Date.getYear() %>

There seems to be some confusion of ideas here. You're either using Tapestry or you're using JSPs, but hardly both, or are you? — Henning, Sep 10 '10 at 15:45
Well, given that I don't know what I'm doing :), yes, I'm editing both .jsp and .tml files, depending. The rough page frame is mostly jsps so far, e.g. default.jsp, header.jsp, footer.jsp. I'm assuming the page content will be more .tml. (The framework was set-up for me by someone else.) — sprugman, Sep 10 '10 at 19:30
heh. thanks. yeah, know which files to touch, and which to leave alone, and what goes where is always the hardest part about learning these things... :) — sprugman, Sep 12 '10 at 20:15

score 70 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Use jsp:useBean to construct a java.util.Date instance and use JSTL fmt:formatDate to format it into a human readable string using a SimpleDateFormat pattern.

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<jsp:useBean id="date" class="java.util.Date" />
Current year is: <fmt:formatDate value="${date}" pattern="yyyy" />

The old fashioned scriptlet way would be:

<%= new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy").format(new java.util.Date()) %>

Note that you need to specify the full qualified class name when you don't use @page import directives, that was likely the cause of your problem. Using scriptlets is however highly discouraged since a decade.

This all is demonstrated in the [jsp] tag info page as well :)

@BalusC: do you sell t-shirts saying "BalusC fan" ? coz I'd buy one! :) — Adriano, Feb 25 '13 at 13:31

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '12 at 19:36

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<%= new java.util.Date().getYear() + 1900 %>

answered Apr 25 '12 at 19:36

jtn

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While short and applies directly to the question, note that this is a scriptlet, which BalusC already mentioned is discouraged. – Thor Hovden Oct 20 '13 at 18:15
Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1, replaced by Calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR) - 1900. – MonoThreaded Apr 29 '14 at 16:08

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:15

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My solution:

<%@page import="java.util.Calendar"%>
<%@page import="java.util.GregorianCalendar"%>
    <%
      GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
      out.print(cal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    %>

answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:15

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One liner: `<% out.print((new java.util.GregorianCalendar()).get(java.util.Calendar.YEAR)); %>` – leonbloy Oct 05 '18 at 21:46

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 13 '19 at 12:28

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In Java 8 to print year you can use:

<%= LocalDate.now().getYear() %>

answered Dec 13 '19 at 12:28

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 02 '22 at 17:39

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<%@page import="java.time.LocalDate"%>

${LocalDate.now().year}

answered Aug 02 '22 at 17:39

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score -2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 10 '10 at 16:16

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You should be writing JSPs using JSTL and using its <fmt> tags to format dates and such.

answered Sep 10 '10 at 16:16

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