rfc822 date header

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at oratrix.com
Tue Apr 13 06:13:16 EDT 1999


"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Which RFC are you referring to? time.ctime() output is definitely *not*
compatible with RFC822. But it should be easy enough to come up with a
time.strftime() format that does the right thing...
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