On Jun 21, 2010, at 14:40 , Peter Cross wrote:

> This date is from a call to 
> http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml:
> 
> <created_at>Mon Jun 21 19:06:21 +0000 2010</created_at>
> 
> <begin rant>

Elided

> </end rant>
> 
> This isn't an XML standard date format either.



It is a unicode compatible date. This format string is defined at: 
<http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns>

Here is the format I use to parse Twitter formats into my local time system: 
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss ZZZ y".

Anon,
Andrew
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