On 25/07/2014 17:54, Chris Knipe wrote:
Hi All,
I have the odd (very rare) case where I am given a date in an incorrect
format. I already use Date::Parse to convert the dates to a unix
timestamp, and it’s working incredibly well. However, on the rare case
that I get incorrect dates, Date::Parse does not like them either and
errors out. The formats in question that I can’t parse basically looks like
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:48+0400
Note the lack of a space between the seconds and the timezone.
Date::Parse is amiss here because (at least) the time part of that
string complies with ISO 8601. i.e. the space *shouldn't* be there.
Ridiculously, you must *pay* ISO to get a copy of their standard, but
W3C's version is here
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
To fix the immediate problem I would amend every date-time string using
s/\S\K([-+][0-9]+)\z/ $1/
but I also think it's worth emailing
Graham Barr <gb...@pobox.com>
the author of Date::Parse to get his angle on this.
Rob
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