DateFormatService (Atlassian Confluence 8.0.0-m90 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DateFormatServiceImpl
```
@ExperimentalApi
public interface DateFormatService
```
A service to help format dates

Since:

5.5

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getDateFormatPatternForUser()`
`String`	`getFormattedDateByUserLocale(org.joda.time.LocalDateTime date)`	Format the given date in an appropriate format according to the user's locale.

- Method Detail
  - getFormattedDateByUserLocale
```
String getFormattedDateByUserLocale(org.joda.time.LocalDateTime date)
```
    Format the given date in an appropriate format according to the user's locale. This can be used to display date to the user. Note that this does not perform timezone conversion.
    
    Parameters:
    
    date - the date to format
    
    Returns:
    
    the date formatted accordingly in the current user's locale
  - getDateFormatPatternForUser
```
String getDateFormatPatternForUser()
```
    Returns:
    
    the date format pattern in a string according to the user's locale