/alcohol

Makes your dates prettier

About:

Alcohol turns ugly dates: 2011-11-11 11:15:28.213 GMT

into sexy dates: Today, 4:56 PM

Usage:

Put the taglib groovy file in the taglib directory of your grails project.

Then in your view:

<g:alcohol date="${uglyDate}"></g:alcohol>

Roadmap:

  • overload the dateFormat taglib to harness its ju-ju
  • support for date differences (2 seconds ago)
  • support for other platforms and languages, starting with Javascript