Primefaces Calendar don't show seconds

Question

I have a calendar where I can pick the date and time (only hours and minutes):

<p:calendar locale="de" pattern="dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"

No I have to provide english translations as well. So I need to remove the locale and pattern part.

Is there a possiblility to have a locale aware calendar with date and time (no seconds) ?

Summary: When locale is German, I want to have dd.mm.yyyy HH:mm. When the locale is English, I want to have mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm

Please read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2668161/internationalization-in-jsf-when-to-use-message-bundle-and-resource-bundle — Jasper de Vries, Sep 20 '17 at 11:40
well then it is english by default. I want `dd.mm.yyyy HH:mm` for German and `mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm` for English — matthias, Sep 20 '17 at 14:02

Rung Ip · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-22T13:51:51.867

Hook the pattern attribute up to a bean method which returns the pattern you want for each given locale.

<p:calendar pattern="#{bean.localePattern}">

public String getLocalePattern() {
    Locale locale = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getLocale();
    if (Locale.GERMAN.equals(locale)) {
        return "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm";
    } else if (Locale.ENGLISH.equals(locale)) {
        return "MM/dd/yyy HH:mm";
    }else {
        //return default pattern...
    }
}

Edit: Jaspers suggestion to take advantage of a localized resource bundle is a great one (if you're already/plan to use JSF's built in localization features).

removing `:ss` from the pattern seems to be more dynamic to me. However, note that the month is represented by `M` (uppercase) — jp-jee, Sep 20 '17 at 19:03

Primefaces Calendar don't show seconds

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