Question

Is there anyway to convert a MM-DD-YY HH:MM date to a valid RSS Date using sed? For example I want to convert 02-26-12 14:33 to Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0100…
(seconds should always be 00)

Answer 1

This is my approach using sed and with the help of the Bourne shell. I added the LANG environment variable because my original language is spanish.

sed '
  s/^\([0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{2\}\)-\([0-9]\{2\}\)\(.*\)$/date -d \"\2-\1\3" +\"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z\"/
' <<<"02-26-12 14:33" | LANG=en sh

Output:

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0100