Re: timezone errors on 2.1.8

[Mark . Burgess]

Any suggested patch?

On  9 Aug, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@spacepants.org> writes:
> 
>     Jamie> This one time, at band camp, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
>     >> Again some people think you should set the date. Perhaps this
>     >> should be configurable.
> 
>     Jamie> I don't mind if it sets it, as long as it gets it right.
>     Jamie> Perhaps you could use a configure test to see if %z exists
>     Jamie> in strftime.
> 
>     Jamie> The manpage for strftime says that %z is "Required to emit
>     Jamie> RFC822-conformant dates" but then also indicates it's a GNU
>     Jamie> extension.  My reading of this is that %Z is not RFC822
>     Jamie> conformant and thus shouldn't be used.
> 
> strftime %Z zone name is RFC822 conformant but is obsolete in 2822 :-
> 
> zone            =       (( "+" / "-" ) 4DIGIT) / obs-zone
> 
> ie. don't use it.
> 
> If a Date header is to be generated and no %z option exists then
> perhaps a UTC date/time should be generated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 



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