The Best Way to Parse Dates from an Email

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Published on 2010-04-13T05:18:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 5:22 UTC
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Im currently developing an app that can parse dates from an email - i.e extract the time and dates from an email (similar to gmail).

Currently I do this in php but this is a tad clunky.

Whats the best language to do this in and are there any existing open source solutions?

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