Re: 822-date obsolete?
I don't see the bug.
LANG=C date -R
do use day and month names from the spec. you show.
The bug might be that one has to tell date to forget about locale.
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:26:39PM +0100, Karl B. Hammar wrote:
> >
> > ----- MAIN
> > You can't simply substitute 822-date with date -R, since date cares about
> > your LANG variable.
> >
> > $ date -R
> > lör, 9 jan 1999 16:08:00 +0100
> > $ LANG=C date -R
> > Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:09:41 +0100
>
> i just checked rfc-822. that is a bug in /bin/date. rfc-822 defines days
> and months as being:
>
> day = "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu"
> / "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun"
>
> month = "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr"
> / "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug"
> / "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"
>
>
> see /usr/doc/doc-rfc/all-rfcs/rfc822.txt.gz, section 5: "DATE AND TIME
> SPECIFICATION"
>
> craig
>
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> craig sanders
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