Re: 822-date obsolete?

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

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