Locale Aware Visualforce Components

Visualforce components for rendering a locale aware date or datetime value within a Visualforce page.

What's Included

src/
    +-- classes/
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDate.cls
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDateTest.cls
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDatetime.cls
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDatetimeTest.cls
    +-- components/
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDate.component
    ¦   +-- localeFormattedDatetime.component
    +-- pages/
        +-- localeFormattedSample.page

Classes

• localeFormattedDate: controller for localeFormattedDate
• localeFormattedDateTest: unit tests for localeFormattedDate.cls
• localeFormattedDatetime: controller for localeFormattedDatetime
• localeFormattedDatetimeTest: unit tests for localeFormattedDatetime.cls

Visualforce Components

• localeFormattedDate: Properly renders Date value based upon the running Uer's locale
• localeFormattedDatetime: Properly renders Datetime value based upon the running Uer's locale

Visualforce Pages

• localeFormattedSample: Sample page for illustrating how to use the code

Setup

Deploy to Salesforce

Deploy this code directly using "Deploy to Salesforce"

Manually Configure in Salesforce

1. Navigate to Setup > Develop > Apex Classes.
2. Click the New button on that page.
3. Copy and paste the code for localeFormattedDate.cls.
4. Click the Save button.

Repeat above steps for remaining three (3) classes.

1. Navigate to Setup > Develop > Components.
2. Click the New button on that page.
3. Copy and paste the code for localeFormattedDate.component.

Repeat above steps for remaining Visualforce component.

How to Use

The "localeFormattedSample" Visualforce page is included to show you how to use the components.

<c:localeFormattedDate dateProvided="{!Today()}"></c:localeFormattedDate>
<c:localeFormattedDatetime datetimeProvided="{!Now()}"></c:localeFormattedDatetime>