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I have this code

<fmt:formatDate value="<%=new java.util.Date() %>" var="now" type="both"/>
<c:out value="${now }" />

which gives error

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

Now I have this code:

<c:set var="dd" value="<%=new java.util.Date() %>" />
<fmt:formatDate value="${dd}" var="now" type="both"/>
<c:out value="${now }" />

Which gives correct output:

Mar 22, 2017 10:09:24 PM

So my question is what is different in these two codes.

Edit 1: Complete code:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
The above mentioned codes were inserted here.
</body>
</html>
DragneelFPS
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Both formatting work just fine! I don't understand why you are having problems:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Format 1</h1>
<fmt:formatDate value="<%=new java.util.Date() %>" var="now" type="both"/>
<c:out value="${now }" /> 
<h1>Format 2</h1>
<c:set var="dd" value="<%=new java.util.Date() %>" />
<fmt:formatDate value="${dd}" var="now" type="both"/>
<c:out value="${now }" /> 

</body>
</html>
funcoding
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