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Parse Twitter's date format with Elixir
Twitter's API date format
If you are using Twitter's API you've probably come across their particular way of formatting dates on user's tweets:
created_at: "Sun Aug 15 14:15:50 +0000 2021",
Let's see how we would parse that into something like this:
~U[2021-08-15 14:15:50Z]
Timex
Let's use Timex for parsing.
Add this to you project dependencies:
# ...
defp deps do
[
{:timex, "~> 3.7"}
# ...
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