>are the spaces always there between each date element?
>if so -
>you should be able to parse it with at() and substr()
>do you care about the name of the day? if not, you can skip that.
>after 'getting it all' you will still need to add time for your zone.
>
>i feel [ug] it could be done in 20 lines or less.

Yes, but I remember having seen somewhere a function or a piece of code that does this conversion.