How to get GWT dates to be formatted correctly?

How do you get today's date in MM/dd/yyyy format? I've followed the docs and examples. This is supposed to do it:

Date today = new Date();  DateTimeFormat fm = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");  String date = fm.format(today);  return new Object[][] {          new Object[] { "This is a note", date},          new Object[] { "This is a very very very long note", date}  };  

But instead it puts the following in the date cell of the grid:

Sun Mar 07 2021 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

So then I tried to do it javascript like this:

public native String getTodaysDate() /*-{      return new Date().toLocaleDateString();      }-*/;    private Object[][] getNoteData() {      String date = getTodaysDate();  

Which produces the same result.

Such a simple task sucks up so much time! Suggestions?

EDIT: I'm adding more code for people to better diagnose the problem.

private Panel createNotesTable() {      Panel panel = new Panel();        RecordDef recordDef = new RecordDef(              new FieldDef[] {                       new StringFieldDef("note"),                       new DateFieldDef("date"),               }      );        GridPanel grid = new GridPanel();      Object[][] data = getNoteData();      MemoryProxy proxy = new MemoryProxy(data);        ArrayReader reader = new ArrayReader(recordDef);      Store store = new Store(proxy, reader);      store.load();      grid.setStore(store);        ColumnConfig[] columns = new ColumnConfig[] {              new ColumnConfig("Note", "note", 130, true, null, "note"),              new ColumnConfig("Date", "date", 65, true)      };      ColumnModel columnModel = new ColumnModel(columns);      grid.setColumnModel(columnModel);        grid.setStripeRows(true);        panel.add(grid);      return panel;  }    private Object[][] getNoteData() {      Date today = new Date();      DateTimeFormat fm = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");      String date = fm.format(today);      GWT.log("date=" +date);  //date is formatted correctly      //but when it is put into the cell, it gets reformatted back to a long version       return new Object[][] {              new Object[] { "This is a note", date},              new Object[] { "This is a very very very long note", date}      };  }  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66522281/how-to-get-gwt-dates-to-be-formatted-correctly March 08, 2021 at 06:48AM