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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