Grails SQL date formating lib

Been working with Grails more and created a little tag lib I thought I would post up for others. The date that comes out of the domains is a rather ugly SQL date style so I create a tag lib with the following code:

 def formatSqlDate = { attrs -> 
    def String startdatetime =  "${attrs['targetDate']}"
    def DateFormat odf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.S");
    def DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat( "MMM d, ''yy" );
    out << df.format(odf.parse(startdatetime))     
 }

Then I can simple reference it with:

<g:formatsqldate targetdate="${domain.dateObject}">

A person can mode the date format string all they want and also could put in various cases or a flag to select a format style if they wished.