The target date with HTTP::Date is always in GMT...  So, here's another suggestion: 

use Date::Manip;

my $date = "2008-11-03 19:03:44";

Date_Init("TZ=EST");
my $http_date = UnixDate(ParseDate("$date -0612"), "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M
+:%S %Z");

print "$http_date\n";    # Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:15:44 EST

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Not fully matching your requirement, but close :) — Adjust the input time zone (-0612) as appropriate.

(If you seriously want to go from 19:03:44 to 20:15:00, look into the other functionality that Date::Manip has to offer for calculating with dates...)

In reply to Re: Converting timestamp to RSS pubDate by almut
in thread Converting timestamp to RSS pubDate by htmanning

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