EST in date time format

bsridharg · April 16th, 2010, 04:02 PM

Hi,

I am trying to format the date into the RFC-822.

The current format I have is 2010-04-09T11:51:20.776-04:00

I am trying to convert it to format Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:54:49 EST

I have tried with format-time($t, "[h]:[m01]:[s01] [PN] [ZN,*-3]", "en", (), ())

but it was not giving the EST at the end but shows -4:00

Please suggest me to converthe date in the required format

thanks

mhkay · April 16th, 2010, 04:14 PM

I thought EST was -05:00? Surely your example is EDT?

(Excuse me if I'm wrong. I'm not American.)

bsridharg · April 16th, 2010, 04:30 PM

Hi Michael,

Even I am not sure. This is surely for EST and the difference might be because of day light saving.

But my problem is to get "EST" in the format without that -4 or -5

Required format "Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:54:49 EST"

mhkay · April 16th, 2010, 04:36 PM

More generally, it's likely to depend on the product you are using. Saxon does have some facilities to output time zone names, but it's all rather dependent on geography. Start by specifying "us" as the "country" parameter, and see what you get. It will probably work OK if your timezone is a US one, but not otherwise. RFC 822 only allows a very limited number of timezone names (GMT plus the US ones - wow, this is a dated standard!), so you run the risk that Saxon will output one that isn't allowed by RFC 822. It would probably be safer to obtain the timezone programmatically (timezone-from-dateTime()), and format it yourself. Alternatively, RFC 822 allows -0400 (no colon), so why not use that?

bsridharg · April 18th, 2010, 02:26 AM

I am using the one with ":" and formatted it to remove : thanks.