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Handling Twitter's "interesting" date format in ColdFusion
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twitterdateformat.cfm
<cffunction name="parseTwitterDateFormat" output="false" returntype="String" hint="I return the date in a useable date format.">
<cfargument name="twitterDate" required="true" type="string" hint="The Twitter date." />
<cfset var formatter = CreateObject("java", "java.text.SimpleDateFormat").init("EEE MMM d kk:mm:ss Z yyyy") />
<cfset formatter.setLenient(true) />
<cfreturn formatter.parse(arguments.twitterDate) />
</cffunction>
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