I want to parse dates like 'Apr 29 13:54:10'. I'm accustomed to using Date::Manip for basically everything, but in this case, I need to parse a few million dates... I hate to say it, but you can really feel the slowness of the pure perl Date::Manip. Is there some faster way to parse these fairly standard date strings? I'm looking at Time::Local qw(timelocal), but I'll need to parse the month by hand.

What is the most CPAN styleish way of parsing dates quickly these days?

EDIT: "parse dates" means:

I'm interested in turning 'Apr 29 13:54:10' into unix seconds: 1114797250.

In reply to Fast date parsing by jettero

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