rfc822 date header
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at lemburg.com
Tue Apr 13 03:39:45 EDT 1999
Jeff Bauer wrote:
>
> Is there a reasonably bulletproof way to generate an
> rfc822-compliant date header using the time module?
>
> The reason I ask is I recall a number of subtle
> errors in this regard, reported by Chris Lawrence,
> among others.
According to the RFC, time.ctime() should do the trick...
but it's probably locale aware which the RFC doesn't account
for.
A better way is to use the ARPA submodule in mxDateTime:
http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html
...even if it's just for looking up the string format ;-)
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