Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.twitter.getTwitterTime

on getTwitterTime (s) {
	<<Changes
		<<1/8/09; 10:14:16 PM by DW
			<<Adjust from GMT to local time. 
		<<1/4/09; 4:30:48 PM by DW
			<<Rewrite.
		<<1/4/09; 11:30:06 AM by DW
			<<Twitter's time strings have a strange format. We decode that format, returning an internal Frontier date.
			<<Example of a Twitter time: Sun Jan 04 16:22:38 +0000 2009
			<<twitter.getTwitterTime ("Sun Jan 04 16:22:38 +0000 2009")
				<<"1/4/09; 4:22:38 PM"
	local (day = number (string.nthfield (s, " ", 3)));
	local (year = number (string.nthfield (s, " ", 6)));
	local (time = string.nthfield (s, " ", 4));
	local (hour = number (string.nthfield (time, ":", 1)));
	local (minute = number (string.nthfield (time, ":", 2)));
	local (second = number (string.nthfield (time, ":", 3)));
	local (month = string.lower (string.nthfield (s, " ", 2)), i);
	for i = 1 to 12 {
		if string.lower (date.monthtostring (i)) beginswith month {
			month = i;
			break}};
	return (date.set (day, month, year, hour, minute, second) + date.getCurrentTimeZone ())} //1/8/09 by DW
<<bundle //test code
	<<dialog.alert (getTwitterTime ("Sun Jan 04 16:22:38 +0000 2009"))

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.