From: mal at lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 07:39:45 GMT
Subject: rfc822 date header
References: <3712D863.2A8148BC@rubic.com>
Message-ID: <3712F4C1.52327AF4@lemburg.com>
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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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