.Net date conversion to RSS date

Question

I have a date in String format,

 mm/dd/yyyy

I want to convert this to RSS date format like,

friday, june 01, 2012, 12:11:25PM

and i want to add this date value which is basically the pubDate to RSS pubDate tag, as follows:

writer.WriteElementString("pubDate",pubDate);

How can i convert this string to pubDate? any suggestions?

O/P

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>About RSS</title>
<link>http://localhost:27549/TTTT.aspx</link>
<description>The latest news</description>
<image><url>http://localhost:27549/images/ttt_logo.jpg</url></image>
<item><title>ABC</title><link>http://localhost:27549/Viewttt.aspx?id=217</link><description>zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...</description><pubDate>Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 00:00:00AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

Answer 1

Fisrt you convert to DateTime variable. For this you can use DateTime.ParseExact.

Then you can use the ToString method to output the date in whatever format you want. Here is the list of custom formats

I will post an example to help you.

string str = "11/10/1984";
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(str, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string formatted = dt.ToString("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy, HH:mm:sstt");

Answer 2

var dt=DateTime.ParseExact("06/08/2012", "MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
writer.WriteElementString("pubDate",dt.ToString("U")); // or dt.ToString("F")