RE: Module To Parse Format 'Friday, March 13, 2009 04:20 PM EST'

Jim,
	You don't need to write your own module to handle these.  Just use the DateTime::Format::Strptime module.  Modify the parser example below with a pattern to suit your own format.  $dt will hold your new datetime object with the values parsed from your string format.

my $parser = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y');
my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime($val);

See the CPAN page for all of the pattern options:

http://search.cpan.org/~rickm/DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.0900/lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm

Regards,

Bobby