Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Day name and Month name used in ethereal-cvs ML

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:14:19 -0500
This appears to be a bug in commitmessage, the script that sends commit
notices to ethereal-cvs.  I made a change that _should_ fix the problem.

Motonori Shindo wrote:
> This is off-topic to this list, but I don't find anywhere else that is
> suitable for a topic like below.
> 
> For example, 'Date:' header used in e-mails sent to ethereal-cvs
> mailing list has the following format:
> 
>   Date: Sunday 26 June 2005 21:11:23 -0000 (GMT)
> 
> while RFC2822 (and RFC822) specifies day-name and month-name as
> 
>   day-name        =       "Mon" / "Tue" / "Wed" / "Thu" /
>                           "Fri" / "Sat" / "Sun"
> 
>   month-name      =       "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr" /
>                           "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug" /
>                           "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"
> 
> Due to this, some e-mail client can not recognize Date: header used in
> ethereal-cvs mailing list correctly. If there is no compelling reason
> to stick with this date format, I think it would be better to change
> it to a format compliant to RFC(2)822.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Motonori Shindo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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