rfc822 date header

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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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