When authoring CASA Lib we are often inspired by many other programming languages, frameworks and libraries. One of my favorite utilities in PHP is the date function. It is a great method for quickly formatting dates.
CASA Lib for AS2 and AS3 contain a DateUtil class. This class contains a formatDate method that acts almost identical to PHP’s date. The only change is that you use ^ to escape letters instead of \.
An example:
// Traces something like: "Tuesday the 30th of December 2008 10:24:13 AM" trace(DateUtil.formatDate(new Date(), "l ^t^h^e dS ^of F Y h:i:s A"));
See DateUtil’s documentation for more information and options: