How to parse a string into a DateTime object in Perl?

Question

I know about the DateTime Perl module, and many of the DateTime::Format:: modules to parse specific kinds of date/time formats. However given some examples of d

Answer 1

Have a look at the Date::Parse module, i.e. the str2time() function. It has support for most of the commonly used formats.

Example:

use Date::Parse;
use DateTime;

my $str = "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:51:08 -0500";
my $epoch = str2time($str);
my $datetime = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $epoch);