Re^3: Date question

parse_date() is not exported by default, so you can either write

  $date2 = HTTP::Date::parse_date($date);
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or import the function into your namespace

  use HTTP::Date qw(parse_date);
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(See Exporter for what this is about)

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Re^4: Date question by htmanning (Friar) on Oct 30, 2008 at 22:28 UTC
Thanks for the help. That worked, sort of. Here's the deal. I have a date formatted in a field like this: 2008-10-30 But when my script pulls it out for the RSS feed, the feed count is as a day ealier even though, if I look at the source of the feed it's correct. So a story published today has a pubDate of 2008-10-30 (and it's correct in the source), but viewing the feed it says the date is 2008-10-29. So I thought that by changing it to the GMT format my problem would be fixed. It's not. When I run this parser it just turns 2008-10-30 into: 2008-10-30 00:00:00 Any ideas?	[reply]
Re^5: Date question by almut (Canon) on Oct 30, 2008 at 22:49 UTC
You could use the `str2time()` / `time2str()` functions instead (which are exported by default, btw). `my $date = "2008-10-29"; my $http_date = time2str( str2time($date) ); # Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:0 +0:00 GMT` [download] You can also explicitly specify the time zone with str2time(), e.g. `str2time("2008-10-29", "GMT") # --> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT str2time("2008-10-29", "-0800") # --> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT str2time("2008-10-29", "+0100") # --> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT` [download] (As to your off-by-one day problem, I'm not really sure I understand what you mean, so I can't comment on that...)	[reply] [d/l] [select]