How to parse <pubDate> in RSS

Ruby
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Hi Experts,

Is there another way to get a valid date from pubDate in RSS like this
example:
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT
…to a format (YYYYMMDD hh:mm:ss) that is recognizable by the parsers?

Ruby G.

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Datum: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:53:52 +0900
Von: Ruby G. [email protected]
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Hi Experts,

Is there another way to get a valid date from pubDate in RSS like this
example:
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT
…to a format (YYYYMMDD hh:mm:ss) that is recognizable by the parsers?

Ruby G.

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Hi Ruby G.,

if you remove the and the weekday, parsing works:

require “date”
text=“Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT”
text.gsub!(/</*pubDate>/,‘’)
text.gsub!(/^…,/,‘’)
p text #text=“23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT”
p DateTime.parse(text)

Best regards,

Axel

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From: Ruby G. [mailto:[email protected]]

Is there another way to get a valid date from pubDate in RSS like this

example:

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:12:56 GMT

…to a format (YYYYMMDD hh:mm:ss) that is recognizable by

the parsers?

if you downloaded that using ruby rss, that would automatically be
parsed. pls post your rss code.

kind regards -botp