code for parsing the dates which are returned in HTTP request responses

From: Henry Minsky <hqm@datawave.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 13:42:46 -0800
To: www-lib@www0.cern.ch
Message-Id: <199411082142.NAA04788@merlin.datawave.net>

Does anyone have code which can parse the dates returned
in http response headers, such as 

 Date: Tuesday, 08-Nov-94 21:32:52 GMT
 
 Last-Modified: Friday, 02-Sep-94 21:55:51 GMT

into unix style time structures?

Received on Tuesday, 8 November 1994 22:42:30 UTC