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Colton Idle

04/05/2023, 11:27 PM

I'm using the twitter api. I get a date back in this string format

"Sun Feb 25 19:31:07 +0000 2018"

How do I know what date format that is so I can convert it to a date, so that I can again format it into something human readable?

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ephemient

04/06/2023, 12:25 AM

looks like a https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#section-3.3

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Colton Idle

04/06/2023, 5:14 AM

i wish there was a website where i could input a formatted date and it'd tell me what format it is. lol

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ephemient

04/06/2023, 1:35 PM

there's really not that many standard date formats in use, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339 references ISO 8601 and RFC 2822

GNU date has quick options for both, https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Options-for-date.html#index-_002dR-8

JS usually supports both as well, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/Date#date_string

the 2822 format is pretty common across the web (with a variant in HTTP, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-3.3) so it's pretty recognizable, I think

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Colton Idle

04/06/2023, 2:41 PM

Gotcha. I guess my date above is 2822 but with a specific formatting of the date itself and maybe that's throwing me off?

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ephemient

04/06/2023, 2:48 PM

I wonder if https://github.com/client9/snowflake2time still works… no idea, but it would be easier than parsing the date :p

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