# Formatting an RSS feed date for Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-an-rss-feed-date-for-flash/152671>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 26, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-an-rss-feed-date-for-flash/152671 "2005-06-26T17:21:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-an-rss-feed-date-for-flash/152671/1 "2005-06-26T17:21:34Z")

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I’m attempting to make an RSS feed for my new site’s news, and i’ve looked online at adding a date stamp but i guess you have to make a new namespace or whatever and it confuses me to shambles when i try to read all that. so i have my current rss file as so:

```auto
<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>
	
		<title>reintroducing.com News</title>
		<link>http://www.reintroducing.com</link>
		<description>The news from the portfolio of Matthew Przybylski.</description>
		<copyright>Copyright 2005, Matt Przybylski</copyright>
		
		<item>
			<title>Test Post 1</title>
			<link>http://www.reintroducing.com</link>
		    <description>I updated my portfolio. Check it out!</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
		</item>
	
	</channel>
</rss>

```

Anyway, this isn’t very friendly to read the date, as seen in the \<item\> tag. i need to output the date to flash in the form of 6-26-05. how would i go about doing that from the pubDate in the item?