Processing Australian BOM Weather XML Data

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You can get start/end time as Lua table like this. Then you can either convert it to timestamp via os.time() or use it as object value directly.

Code:

function parsedatetime(str)   local date = {}   date.year, date.month, date.day,   date.hour, date.min, date.sec =     str:match('(%d+)%-(%d+)%-(%d+)T(%d+):(%d+):(%d+)')   return date end function starttag(p, tag, attrs)   if tag == 'area' and attrs.aac == aac then     in_area = true   elseif tag == 'forecast-period' and in_area then     index = tonumber(attrs.index)     if index then       forecast[ index ] = {         start_time = parsedatetime(attrs['start-time-local']),         end_time = parsedatetime(attrs['end-time-local']),       }     end   elseif index then     prop = attrs.type   end end -- start_time = forecast[ 1 ].start_time -- end_time = forecast[ 1 ].end_time