I noticed an issue with the formatDate tag. It displays current date when the date passed is a null object when used in the gsp page. The default date is rendered along with timestamp when the gsp pages are generated using grails commands generate-views or generate-all for a domain class. The views (list.jsp and show.jsp) generated for the domain class contains the following code fragment. (Assuming your domain class has a variable declared as Date) ${fieldValue(bean:objectInstance, field:'expiryDate')} By using the formatDate tag as below we will be able to overcome the formatting issue. ${objectInstance?.expiryDate} However, I noticed that when expiryDate in the above example is null, the tag displays the current date as opposed to to showing blank.
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