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Snippet to convert PayPal date format to DateTime (taken from: http://rhnh.net/2008/03/17/paypal-ipn-fails-date-standards)
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parse_paypal_date.rb
# taken from: http://rhnh.net/2008/03/17/paypal-ipn-fails-date-standards
# parses PayPal non-standard format
DateTime.strptime("18:30:30 Jan 1, 2000 PST", "%H:%M:%S %b %e, %Y %Z").new_offset(0)
# in Rails you can use to_time_in_current_zone to convert it to TimeWithZone
DateTime.strptime("18:30:30 Jan 1, 2000 PST", "%H:%M:%S %b %e, %Y %Z").to_time_in_current_zone
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