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>