Formatting date in Thymeleaf
<p>I'm brand new to Java/Spring/Thymeleaf so please bear with my current level of understanding. I did review <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20361691/formatting-thfield-in-thymeleaf">this similar question</a>, but wasn't able to solve my problem.</p>

<p>I'm trying to get a simplified date instead of the long date format.</p>

<pre><code>// DateTimeFormat annotation on the method that's calling the DB to get date.
@DateTimeFormat(pattern="dd-MMM-YYYY")
public Date getReleaseDate() {
    return releaseDate;
}
</code></pre>

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html:
</p>

<pre><code>&lt;table&gt;
    &lt;tr th:each="sprint : ${sprints}"&gt;
        &lt;td th:text="${sprint.name}"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td th:text="${sprint.releaseDate}"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Current output</p>

<pre><code>sprint1 2016-10-04 14:10:42.183
</code></pre>