Re: Formatting a date from a Twitter feed?

Monday, August 16, 2010, 8:39:10 PM, rottinam wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to format a date from a twitter RSS feed. The node in question
> looks like this:
>
> <published>2010-08-10T17:29:29+01:00</published>
>
> Any ideas how to make this look human readable, specifically like:
> August 10, 2009 5:25 pm

First you have to convert that string to a date with
http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_string_date,
then you have to convert it back to string with
http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_date.html#ref_builtin_string_for_date

> I have read up on the date directives but these aren't working. :/

Perhaps you misunderstand how to use them.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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