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); 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 { // Handles MMMM dd format if (!saw_day_specifier) { for (int ii = i + 1; ii < format.Length; ++ii) { ch = format [ii]; if (ch == 'd') { saw_day_specifier = true; break; } if (ch == '\'' || ch == '"') { ii += ParseQuotedString (format, ii, null) - 1; } } } // 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 = 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 (); }