From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make standard If-Modified-Since headers Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:39:08 +0000 Message-ID: <47C5E68C.50505@gnu.org> References: <86pruy3q6p.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873arfl1ui.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> <867igqtp1g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ejayjuf8.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <863aretkoj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86y796s33o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <47C5E307.6070200@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204151962 3533 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 22:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 23:39:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUUwF-0006ti-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:39:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUUvj-0001fA-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUUvf-0001dn-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUUvd-0001cm-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUUvd-0001cf-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:39:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUUvd-0004Hp-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:39:09 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 50229266/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMt1xUdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIrmE X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 27 Feb 2008 22:39:08 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <47C5E307.6070200@gnu.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90660 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > IIRC, only a small subset of timezone names are allowed in HTTP > headers, so %z would be better than %Z, or alternatively hardcode GMT: In fact, RFC2616 (3.3.1) states: "All HTTP date/time stamps MUST be represented in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), without exception. For the purposes of HTTP, GMT is exactly equal to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)." So hardcoding GMT here is correct.