Re: Converting timestamp to RSS pubDate

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...)

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Re^2: Converting timestamp to RSS pubDate by htmanning (Friar) on Nov 04, 2008 at 01:51 UTC
Thanks. This sort of worked but here what's weird. In the HTML code this was printed: <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:37:50 EST</pubDate> If I look at the RSS Feed in Firefox or IE it reads this: Monday, November 03, 2008 4:37 PM I have no idea why. Any ideas? The 4:37 should read 9:37 shouldn't it? Also, the server is EST and it's only 8:37 there now so somewhere I'm gaining an hour.	[reply]
Re^3: Converting timestamp to RSS pubDate by almut (Canon) on Nov 04, 2008 at 02:09 UTC
Why don't you just fiddle with the `<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:37:50 EST</pubDate>` value until Firefox/IE is showing the correct date? Try time zones other than EST (maybe it's expecting GMT, as would've been output by HTTP::Date), increment/decrement the hour, etc. Shouldn't be too hard to eventually figure out how Firefox is interpreting the pubDate value...	[reply] [d/l]