| Subject: | Does not parse RFC 822-ish dates ending in "-0000 (UTC)" |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:23:34 -0600 (CST) |
| To: | bug-Date-Manip [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Aaron Hall <ahall [...] vitaphone.net> |
ParseDateString doesn't return any result for an RFC 822-ish date that
ends in "-0000 (UTC)", such as:
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:47:28 -0000 (UTC)
This date string, and others like it, have appears in the "Date:" header
of automated mails from Amazon.com, so they are in the wild, though my
quick reading of RFC 5322 suggests they're at best invalid.
ParseDateString does return a result if the "(UTC)" identifer is
missing, or if it is replaced with either "(UT)" or "(GMT)". I would
expect it to return the same result for:
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:47:28 -0000 (UTC)
as for:
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:47:28 -0000 (UT)
I've confirmed this behavior on Debian Squeeze (Perl 5.10.1) with DM
6.12 and DM 6.25, and on Mac OS X 10.7 (Perl 5.12.3) with DM 6.24.
I've attached a little test program demonstrating the behavior.
Thanks so much for Date::Manip, BTW. I've used it several times in
various tools over the years. (I noticed this in a general-purpose
"dateconv" tool that I use in shell scripts.)
Thanks again,
Aaron
--
Aaron Hall : A neurotic dreams of castles in the air;
ahall@vitaphone.net : a psychotic lives in them.
: (Phew; I'm only neurotic!)
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