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There's any number of modules for parsing dates/times on CPAN - Time::ParseDate comes to mind -, and once you've parsed a time, converting it to UTC is easy. That said, maybe I'm missing the obvious, but how do you expect to succeed when you don't know the time zone? 5pm Mountain isn't the same as 5pm Eastern, and if you're only told something happened at "5pm" without a timezone, you cannot say when it actually happened.

That said, your example - "11:50:45.242 EDT OCT 27 2015" - gives a time zone, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Are you able to rely on that being correct? Because if so, the problem's fairly trivial again.

In reply to Re: Timezone Conversion by AppleFritter
in thread Timezone Conversion by mhooper

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