how to get RFC822 date format via PERL

[gchen]

Folks,

I have a blog written in PERL. One of the blog's function is to generate a RSS/XML feed for RSS reader. But the <pubDate> I got is not accepted by RSS validator which requies RFC822 format.

What I have from my PERL is like this...
<pubDate>02/13/2006 - 11:38</pubDate>

and an RFC822 format is like this...
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
or
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

any tip?

Thanks a million!

Gary

 

[PaulTEG]

Using one of the date modules on

http://search.cpan.org,

convert the date to epoch time, and then just use the localtime() function

HTH
--Paul

Date::Calc, HTTP:ate should be what you're looking for

Paul
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[KevinADC]

since 11:38 is not deisgnated AM or PM you will never know what the correct time was. You can just assume it's either one though and go from there. You could also use Time::Local I'm pretty sure to convert the date back to epoch time and then use POSIX (strftime) or localtime() and reformat the date format the way you need it.