- struct tm Tm;
- setlocale (LC_ALL,"C");
- bool const invalid =
- // Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
- (strptime(str, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z", &Tm) == NULL &&
- // Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036
- strptime(str, "%A, %d-%b-%y %H:%M:%S %Z", &Tm) == NULL &&
- // Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format
- strptime(str, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", &Tm) == NULL);
- setlocale (LC_ALL,"");
- if (invalid == true)
+ unsigned short day = 0;
+ signed int year = 0; // yes, Y23K problem – we gonna worry then…
+ std::string weekday, month, datespec, timespec, zone;
+ std::istringstream ss(str);
+ auto const &posix = std::locale::classic();
+ ss.imbue(posix);
+ ss >> weekday;
+ // we only superficially check weekday, mostly to avoid accepting localized
+ // weekdays here and take only its length to decide which datetime format we
+ // encounter here. The date isn't stored.
+ std::transform(weekday.begin(), weekday.end(), weekday.begin(), ::tolower);
+ std::array<char const * const, 7> c_weekdays = {{ "sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat" }};
+ if (std::find(c_weekdays.begin(), c_weekdays.end(), weekday.substr(0,3)) == c_weekdays.end())
+ return false;
+
+ switch (weekday.length())
+ {
+ case 4:
+ // Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
+ if (weekday[3] != ',')
+ return false;
+ ss >> day >> month >> year >> timespec >> zone;
+ break;
+ case 3:
+ // Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format
+ ss >> month >> day >> timespec >> year;
+ zone = "UTC";
+ break;
+ case 0:
+ case 1:
+ case 2: