<p>I am pulling a long timestamp from a database, but want to present it as a Date using Tags only, no embedded java in the JSP.<br><br> I've created my own tag to do this because I was unable to get the parseDate and formatDate tags to work, but that's not to say they don't work.<br>
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Any advice?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

The parseDate and formatDate tags work, but they work with Date objects.
You can call new java.util.Date(longvalue) to get a date object, then pass that to the standard tag.
somewhere other than the jsp create your date object.
```
```
long longvalue = ...;//from database.
java.util.Date dateValue = new java.util.Date(longvalue);
request.setAttribute("dateValue", dateValue);
```
```
put it on the request and then you can access it in your tag like this.
```
```
<fmt:formatDate value="${dateValue}" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm"/>
```
```