CLF = WTF?

[Mark Smith]

   replace "/" with space in pDate
    put format("%02d", lineoffset(word 2 of pDate, the monthnames))  
into word 2 of pDate
    put space into char -15 of pDate

should give rev's internet date, I think.

Best,

Mark

On 7 Mar 2009, at 20:28, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I'm writing a web log analysis tool for my sites with Rev (why does  
> every hosting company's built-in log tool suck?), and after I parse  
> out the date stamp element I find it won't go through Rev's convert  
> command without throwing an error.
>
> Apache's Common Log Format (CLF) uses this form for dates:
>
>   10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700
> <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#common>
>
> This is different from Rev"s "internet date", used by many other  
> processes:
>
>  Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:20:48 -0800
>
> So my question here is twofold:
>
> 1. Why did whomever spec'd CLF invent a novel date format rather  
> than simply use a more prevelant form?  Is there a benefit to this  
> novelty that I've overlooked?  Or is it even all that novel?  Heck,  
> maybe it's used throughout a million other web processes and I've  
> just never noticed it before; it would seem strange, though, that  
> no one who's ever worked on Rev noticed it either.
>
> 2. Right now I'm parsing the CLF date and reformatting it into  
> "internet date" using about a dozen lines of code, and maybe it  
> could be simplified a bit more but what I'd ideally like is the  
> efficiency of a one-liner.  Anyone here know of a what to alter CLF  
> dates into a form that will survive Rev's "convert" command in one  
> or two lines?
>
>
> TIA -
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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