format a date in to the format month day, year hour:minute am/pm in rust

To format a date in the given format in Rust, we can use the chrono crate. First, we must obtain a DateTime object with the date we want to format. Then, we can use the format method of the DateTime object to specify the desired output format.

main.rs
use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
use chrono::format::{DelayedFormat, StrftimeItems};

fn format_date(date: DateTime<Utc>) -> DelayedFormat<StrftimeItems> {
    date.format("%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p")
}
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Here, we define a function format_date that takes a DateTime<Utc> object and returns a DelayedFormat<StrftimeItems> object, which contains the formatted date. The %B %d, %Y %I:%M %p string specifies the desired output format.

We can call this function with a DateTime<Utc> object to obtain a formatted date:

main.rs
fn main() {
    let date = Utc::now();
    let formatted = format_date(date);
    println!("{}", formatted);
}
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This will output the current date and time in the format "Month Day, Year Hour:Minute AM/PM", based on the local timezone:

main.rs
September 15, 2021 04:29 PM
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