How to get the month abbreviation instead of number in Razor syntax

Question

I have the following code in my MVC 4 razor view, which is supposed to take the DateTime property called modifiedDate, and print out the month name, i.e., Jan, Feb, etc., instead of 1, 2.

@foreach (var post in Model.NewsList)
{
   <li class="entry">
     <p class="calendar"><em>@post.modifiedDate.Value.Month.ToString("mmm")</em></p>               
   </li>
}

Any ideas how to do this?

Answer 1

See The "MMMM" Custom Format Specifier

Usage:

DateTime? date = DateTime.Now;

date.Value.ToString("MMMM"); // Prints the Month name (e.g. May)

Corrected:

@foreach (var post in Model.NewsList)
{
   <li class="entry">
     <p class="calendar"><em>@post.modifiedDate.Value.ToString("MMMM")</em></p>               
   </li>
}