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Date Parsing with ColdFusion / Twitter

The Twitter API is great. Except for the dates it returns, especially if you're a ColdFusion progammer. I ended up using some code posted by Peter Freitag  to write a UDF to convert the Twitter date/time to a ColdFusion friendly date/time.  

Twitter makes matters worse with it's inconsistency between the REST and Search APIs. My UDF also deals with the different date formats returned by the Twitter APIs. 

Search API returns: Sat, 16 May 2009 05:26:32 +0000
REST API returns: Sat May 16 05:26:32 +0000 2009 

Nice.

*As of May 2009 the ...