How do I use a date pattern in a header/footer?

Question

Here\'s my appender configuration from my app.config. This just prints out the literal string instead of translating it to the date (i.e., it literally prints \"[START: %d

Answer 1

I encountered this problem and a quick workaround I used is to just use a fixed header and footer. Then do this as soon as you have the ILog object:

log.Info(string.Format("[START: {0} ]\r\n", dateString))

So just under the header you will get the information you desire.

E.g

===Start===
[START:  2012-02-23 12:12:12 ]

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