public static string ToString(DateTime dt, TimeSpan?utc_offset, string format, DateTimeFormatInfo dfi) { // the length of the format is usually a good guess of the number // of chars in the result. Might save us a few bytes sometimes // Add + 10 for cases like mmmm dddd StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(format.Length + 10); // For some cases, the output should not use culture dependent calendar DateTimeFormatInfo inv = DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo; if (format == inv.RFC1123Pattern) { dfi = inv; } else if (format == inv.UniversalSortableDateTimePattern) { dfi = inv; } int i = 0; bool saw_day_specifier = false; while (i < format.Length) { int tokLen; bool omitZeros = false; char ch = format [i]; switch (ch) { // // Time Formats // case 'h': // hour, [1, 12] tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); int hr = dt.Hour % 12; if (hr == 0) { hr = 12; } DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, hr, tokLen == 1 ? 1 : 2); break; case 'H': // hour, [0, 23] tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dt.Hour, tokLen == 1 ? 1 : 2); break; case 'm': // minute, [0, 59] tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dt.Minute, tokLen == 1 ? 1 : 2); break; case 's': // second [0, 29] tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dt.Second, tokLen == 1 ? 1 : 2); break; case 'F': omitZeros = true; goto case 'f'; case 'f': // fraction of second, to same number of // digits as there are f's tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); if (tokLen > 7) { throw new FormatException("Invalid Format String"); } int dec = (int)((long)(dt.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond) / (long)Math.Pow(10, 7 - tokLen)); int startLen = result.Length; DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dec, tokLen); if (omitZeros) { while (result.Length > startLen && result [result.Length - 1] == '0') { result.Length--; } // when the value was 0, then trim even preceding '.' (!) It is fixed character. if (dec == 0 && startLen > 0 && result [startLen - 1] == '.') { result.Length--; } } break; case 't': // AM/PM. t == first char, tt+ == full tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); string desig = dt.Hour < 12 ? dfi.AMDesignator : dfi.PMDesignator; if (tokLen == 1) { if (desig.Length >= 1) { result.Append(desig [0]); } } else { result.Append(desig); } break; case 'z': // timezone. t = +/-h; tt = +/-hh; ttt+=+/-hh:mm tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); TimeSpan offset = utc_offset ?? TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(dt); if (offset.Ticks >= 0) { result.Append('+'); } else { result.Append('-'); } switch (tokLen) { case 1: result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Hours)); break; case 2: result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Hours).ToString("00")); break; default: result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Hours).ToString("00")); result.Append(':'); result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Minutes).ToString("00")); break; } break; case 'K': // 'Z' (UTC) or zzz (Local) tokLen = 1; if (utc_offset != null || dt.Kind == DateTimeKind.Local) { offset = utc_offset ?? TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(dt); if (offset.Ticks >= 0) { result.Append('+'); } else { result.Append('-'); } result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Hours).ToString("00")); result.Append(':'); result.Append(Math.Abs(offset.Minutes).ToString("00")); } else if (dt.Kind == DateTimeKind.Utc) { result.Append('Z'); } break; // // Date tokens // case 'd': // day. d(d?) = day of month (leading 0 if two d's) // ddd = three leter day of week // dddd+ full day-of-week tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); if (tokLen <= 2) { DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dfi.Calendar.GetDayOfMonth(dt), tokLen == 1 ? 1 : 2); } else if (tokLen == 3) { result.Append(dfi.GetAbbreviatedDayName(dfi.Calendar.GetDayOfWeek(dt))); } else { result.Append(dfi.GetDayName(dfi.Calendar.GetDayOfWeek(dt))); } saw_day_specifier = true; break; case 'M': // Month.m(m?) = month # (with leading 0 if two mm) // mmm = 3 letter name // mmmm+ = full name tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); int month = dfi.Calendar.GetMonth(dt); if (tokLen <= 2) { DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, month, tokLen); } else if (tokLen == 3) { result.Append(dfi.GetAbbreviatedMonthName(month)); } else { // NOTE: .NET ignores quoted 'd' and reads it as day specifier but I think // that's wrong result.Append(saw_day_specifier ? dfi.GetMonthGenitiveName(month) : dfi.GetMonthName(month)); } break; case 'y': // Year. y(y?) = two digit year, with leading 0 if yy // yyy+ full year with leading zeros if needed. tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); if (tokLen <= 2) { DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dfi.Calendar.GetYear(dt) % 100, tokLen); } else { DateTimeUtils.ZeroPad(result, dfi.Calendar.GetYear(dt), tokLen); } break; case 'g': // Era name tokLen = DateTimeUtils.CountRepeat(format, i, ch); result.Append(dfi.GetEraName(dfi.Calendar.GetEra(dt))); break; // // Other // case ':': result.Append(dfi.TimeSeparator); tokLen = 1; break; case '/': result.Append(dfi.DateSeparator); tokLen = 1; break; case '\'': case '"': tokLen = DateTimeUtils.ParseQuotedString(format, i, result); break; case '%': if (i >= format.Length - 1) { throw new FormatException("% at end of date time string"); } if (format [i + 1] == '%') { throw new FormatException("%% in date string"); } // Look for the next char tokLen = 1; break; case '\\': // C-Style escape if (i >= format.Length - 1) { throw new FormatException("\\ at end of date time string"); } result.Append(format [i + 1]); tokLen = 2; break; default: // catch all result.Append(ch); tokLen = 1; break; } i += tokLen; } return(result.ToString()); }