# Extract weekdays and month names from timestamp **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-weekdays-and-month-names-from-timestamp/13512 **Category:** Support **Created:** [June 3, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-weekdays-and-month-names-from-timestamp/13512 "2012-06-03T07:28:59Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD) #### Post date: [June 3, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-weekdays-and-month-names-from-timestamp/13512/3 "2012-06-03T12:22:54Z")
> [@LaurenBacall](#): > > I'm trying to create an Export script which will export to a standards-compliant podcast RSS feed. ... > **1.** How can I copy the weekdays and month names from the File Create timestamp, it seems Mp3Tag re-formats them into digits before inserting them into the tag. > The RFC 2822 standard for RSS feeds is: Thu, 31 05 2012 10:56:46 GMT ... See current RFC 5322 ... [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.3](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.3) On my computer system (set to Germany and ISO8601) the Mp3tag system variables provide these values: %\_file\_create\_date% ... 2012-02-15 %\_file\_create\_datetime% ... 2012-02-15 06:29:14 %\_file\_create\_datetime\_raw% ... 1329283754 Mp3tag does not support weekday names or month names. Mp3tag does not provide any function for date time calculations or formatting. See also ... [/t/8243/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8243/1) DD.20120603.1622.CEST --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extract-weekdays-and-month-names-from-timestamp/13512)._