Question

I want to show date on main.gsp. Do I just call g:formatDate? Because I did that but date is not rendered:

<span id='loginLink'  style='position: absolute; right: 20px; top: 20px;'>
          <sec:ifLoggedIn>
              You are logged in as:<sec:username/> (<g:link controller='logout'>Logout</g:link>)
          </sec:ifLoggedIn>
          <sec:ifNotLoggedIn>
             <g:link controller='login'>Login</g:link>
          </sec:ifNotLoggedIn>
    </span>
    <span style='position: absolute; right: 20px; top: 40px;'>
        Date:<g:formatDate format="yyyy-MM-dd" date="${date}"/>
    </span>

Answer 1

Are you sure that the ‘main’ controller action returns the ‘date’ variable containing the actual date? For example:

def main =  {
    [date: new Date()]
}

Another solution would be to instanciate the Date class directly in your gsp code.

<g:formatDate format="yyyy-MM-dd" date="${new Date()}"/>