RFC-822 dates into Ruby dates

[kellygreer1]

Whats the right way in Ruby to pull these kind of dates apart into a
Ruby Date?

Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:25:00 GMT

I'm working on parsing several RSS feeds and storing the data in
MySQL.

Thanks,
Kelly Greer
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[Eric I.]

Whats the right way in Ruby to pull these kind of dates apart into a
Ruby Date?

Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:25:00 GMT

Hi Kelly,

The DateTime class (in library 'date') can parse those strings.

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require 'date'
d = DateTime.parse("Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:25:00 GMT")
puts d.year
puts d.hour
puts d.zone
# and so forth... *or*
puts d.strftime "%Y %H %Z"

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Hope that helps,

Eric

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