Utility function that yields a properly formatted time string.
(Idea by Jeff Bauer, code by Jeremy, renamed and "Date:" constant
stripped from return value by GvR.)
diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index 86727d0..292b3c9 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -873,6 +873,16 @@
t = time.mktime(data[:8] + (0,))
return t - data[9] - time.timezone
+def formatdate(timeval=None):
+ """Returns time format preferred for Internet standards.
+
+ Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123
+ """
+ if timeval is None:
+ timeval = time.time()
+ return "%s" % time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT',
+ time.gmtime(timeval))
+
# When used as script, run a small test program.
# The first command line argument must be a filename containing one