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