Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached)
Thank you!
> RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
> described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits.
> This patch replaces the reference to the RFC 822 by a specification that is
> compatible with its successors, RFC 2822 and RFC 5322, but does not use their
> full range of options.
> ---
> policy.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index af00c0e..5ba1980 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1618,11 +1618,29 @@
> </p>
>
> <p>
> - The <var>date</var> must be in RFC822 format<footnote>
> + The <var>date</var> has the following format<footnote>
> This is generated by <tt>date -R</tt>.
> - </footnote>; it must include the time zone specified
> - numerically, with the time zone name or abbreviation
> - optionally present as a comment in parentheses.
> + </footnote> (compatible and with the same semantics of
> + RFC 2822 and RFC 5322):
> + <example>day-of-week, dd month yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz</example>
> + where:
> + <list compact="compact">
> + <item>day-of week is one of: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun</item>
> + <item>dd is a one- or two-digit day of the month (01-31)</item>
> + <item>month is one of: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec</item>
> + <item>yyyy is the four-digit year (e.g. 2010)</item>
> + <item>hh is the two-digit hour (00-23</item>
> + <item>mm is the two-digit minutes (00-59)</item>
> + <item>ss is the two-digit seconds (00-60)</item>
> + <item>
> + +zzzz or -zzzz is the the time zone offset from Coordinated Universal
> + Time (UTC). "+" indicates that the time is ahead of (i.e., east of) UTC
> + and "-" indicates that the time is behind (i.e., west of) UTC. The
> + first two digits indicate the hour difference from UTC and the last
> + two digits indicate the number of additional minutes difference from
> + UTC. The last two digits must be in the range 00-59.
> + </item>
> + </list>
> </p>
>
> <p>
Seconded.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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