I really like it when stuff just works ™. Case in point: the ParseDate module in Ruby. I'm updating LocalFark to account for the change in date syntax on Fark and TotalFark. On a hunch, I just passed the entire date string scraped from {,Total}Fark into ParseDate::parsedate, and it worked exactly as advertised, simplifying the code in LocalFark. I'm testing the changes now; if everything works okay a new version will be out in less than an hour.