Parsing Twitter API Datestamp

Question

I\'m using the twitter API to return a list of status updates and the times they were created. It\'s returning the creation date in the following format:

Answer 1

JavaScript can parse that date if you remove the +0000 from the string:

var dStr = "Fri Apr 09 12:53:54 +0000 2010";
dStr = dStr.replace("+0000 ", "") + " UTC";
var d = new Date(dStr);

Chrome -- and I suspect some other non IE browsers -- can actually parse it with the +0000 present in the string, but you may as well remove it for interoperability.

PHP can parse the date with strtotime:

strtotime("Fri Apr 09 12:53:54 +0000 2010");