I'm writing a script to generate XML for SOAP requests to an external API. One of the external API fields is a datetime string, but it's serialized in a format that is parsed on the other end by I think C# using

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlCustomFormatter.ToDateTime

. Is there a built in SS2.0 function to format datetime values for XML serialization?

if the SOAP api supports a schema (which it should) then it should indicate the type for that date, which in turn should tell you how it should be serialized

ah ok

usually that ends up meaning ISO8601 style dates, e.g. YYYY-MM-DD?