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Make HTTP date usable

by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01 UTC ( [id://795864]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

HTTP returns a date as "Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:02 GMT". LWP's HTTP::Response->header() could be used to get the value, but I really need a timestamp.
Which module is the best for this?

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Re: Make HTTP date usable
by wfsp (Abbot) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:09 UTC 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Date::Parse;

my $date = q{Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:02 GMT};
my $time = str2time($date);

print $time;

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Re: Make HTTP date usable
by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:09 UTC
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Re: Make HTTP date usable
by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 UTC
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Re: Make HTTP date usable
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 17, 2009 at 14:30 UTC
    Not it doesn't. ->last_modified returns epoch time (as returned by time). 
    >perl -MLWP -E"say LWP::UserAgent->new->get('http://www.perlmonks.org'
+)->last_modified"
1253197990

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    You can format the result by using localtime or gmtime with POSIX's strftime. Alternatively, every date module out there accepts epoch time as an input.

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