What is an easy way to parse a date Http Header in C?

Question

I want to parse an email http date header, is there an easy way to do it without writing my own string parsing functions?

Example:

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010         


        

Answer 1

libcurl has a function for that, too:

time_t curl_getdate(char *datestring, time_t *now );

If you don't want to link the whole library, you can just copy the code for that from here: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/parsedate.c

Answer 2

If it's available in your target system (eg Linux) you can use strptime.