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Task/Date-manipulation/Lua/date-manipulation.lua

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+str = string.lower( "March 7 2009 7:30pm EST" )
+
+month = string.match( str, "%a+" )
+if     month == "january"   then month = 1
+elseif month == "february"  then month = 2
+elseif month == "march"     then month = 3
+elseif month == "april"     then month = 4
+elseif month == "may"       then month = 5
+elseif month == "june"      then month = 6
+elseif month == "july"      then month = 7
+elseif month == "august"    then month = 8
+elseif month == "september" then month = 9
+elseif month == "october"   then month = 10
+elseif month == "november"  then month = 11
+elseif month == "december"  then month = 12
+end
+
+strproc = string.gmatch( str, "%d+" )
+day  = strproc()
+year = strproc()
+hour = strproc()
+min  = strproc()
+
+if string.find( str, "pm" ) then hour = hour + 12 end
+
+print( os.date( "%c", os.time{ year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=hour, min=min, sec=0 } + 12 * 3600 ) )