Parse a date string in either of the formats RFC-1123, RFC-850 or ANSI C's asctime() format. These formats are listed here.
Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Thursday, 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
For more information see RFC-2616 section 3.1.1.
Source
static DateTime parse(String date) { final int SP = 32; const List wkdays = const ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"]; const List weekdays = const [ "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday" ]; const List months = const [ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" ]; const List wkdaysLowerCase = const [ "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat", "sun" ]; const List weekdaysLowerCase = const [ "monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday", "friday", "saturday", "sunday" ]; const List monthsLowerCase = const [ "jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "jun", "jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "nov", "dec" ]; final int formatRfc1123 = 0; final int formatRfc850 = 1; final int formatAsctime = 2; int index = 0; String tmp; int format; void expect(String s) { if (date.length - index < s.length) { throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } String tmp = date.substring(index, index + s.length); if (tmp != s) { throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } index += s.length; } int expectWeekday() { int weekday; // The formatting of the weekday signals the format of the date string. int pos = date.indexOf(",", index); if (pos == -1) { int pos = date.indexOf(" ", index); if (pos == -1) throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); tmp = date.substring(index, pos); index = pos + 1; weekday = wkdays.indexOf(tmp); if (weekday != -1) { format = formatAsctime; return weekday; } } else { tmp = date.substring(index, pos); index = pos + 1; weekday = wkdays.indexOf(tmp); if (weekday != -1) { format = formatRfc1123; return weekday; } weekday = weekdays.indexOf(tmp); if (weekday != -1) { format = formatRfc850; return weekday; } } throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } int expectMonth(String separator) { int pos = date.indexOf(separator, index); if (pos - index != 3) throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); tmp = date.substring(index, pos); index = pos + 1; int month = months.indexOf(tmp); if (month != -1) return month; throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } int expectNum(String separator) { int pos; if (separator.length > 0) { pos = date.indexOf(separator, index); } else { pos = date.length; } String tmp = date.substring(index, pos); index = pos + separator.length; try { int value = int.parse(tmp); return value; } on FormatException catch (e) { throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } } void expectEnd() { if (index != date.length) { throw new HttpException("Invalid HTTP date $date"); } } int weekday = expectWeekday(); int day; int month; int year; int hours; int minutes; int seconds; if (format == formatAsctime) { month = expectMonth(" "); if (date.codeUnitAt(index) == SP) index++; day = expectNum(" "); hours = expectNum(":"); minutes = expectNum(":"); seconds = expectNum(" "); year = expectNum(""); } else { expect(" "); day = expectNum(format == formatRfc1123 ? " " : "-"); month = expectMonth(format == formatRfc1123 ? " " : "-"); year = expectNum(" "); hours = expectNum(":"); minutes = expectNum(":"); seconds = expectNum(" "); expect("GMT"); } expectEnd(); return new DateTime.utc(year, month + 1, day, hours, minutes, seconds, 0); }