How to convert RSS dates to second since epoch?

[Duke of Hazard]

Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:

2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00

to seconds since 1970 ?

[Michael Fesser]

Re: How to convert RSS dates to second since epoch?

..oO(Duke of Hazard)

>Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:
>
>2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00
>
>to seconds since 1970 ?

strtotime()

Micha

[Toby A Inkster]

Re: How to convert RSS dates to second since epoch?

Duke of Hazard wrote:

2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00

This is not an RSS date. RSS uses RFC-822-style dates, such as:

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:03:40 +0100

The date format you posted is and ISO-8601 date, as used by e.g. Atom.

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