Howdy Ryan:
> I have been working on a script which will retrieve newsgroup news
> and then output only a single day (the previous day) to an HTML file
> so that I can post the messages on a web page. If I grab more than
> one day's worth of messages, the web page becomes too large (as much
> as 1MB.)
>
> Unfortunately, REBOL does not understand the date formats. There
> are at least three date formats used by newsgroups, as follows:
>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:33:09 GMT
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:49:03 +0100
> Date: 22 Feb 2000 16:00:52 GMT
REBOL can understand those dates, if fed in after the comma:
get-news-date: func [
date-str [string!] "One of the above date strings"
][
date-str: any [find/tail date-str ", " date-str]
to-date date-str
]
-jeff
