getting date into rfc822 format

[Erik Max Francis]

"Jon J. Morin" wrote:

> date = time.ctime(time.time())
> 
> Which gives me a date like this:
> Sat Jul 20 00:02:03 2002
> 
> When what I want is something like this:
> Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:18:17 -0500 (EST)

Try time.strftime, though you might have to hack up the timezone
information yourself.

	http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html

> Incidentally, I have read the rfc822 and I can't figure out what the
> -0500
> is in the date/time.  Can anyone explain this to me?

It's the timezone.

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