in reply to Parsing a date/time string into a UNIX timestamp

DateTime::Format::HTTP supports that format (as the "ANSI C asctime()" format). You need to add a four-digit year on the end to be completely accurate, but it can handle it if you don't (according to the documentation).

use DateTime::Format::HTTP; my $dt = DateTime::Format::HTTP->parse_datetime("Thu Jan 8 07:01:01");

From there, you can convert to anything else in the DateTime::Format:: namespace.

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