Re: APR::Date

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From: Joe Schaefer
Subject: Re: APR::Date
Date: 01:26 on 15 Mar 2005

Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxx.xxx> writes:

> Malcolm J Harwood wrote:
>> According to the docs, APR::Date::http parses the format:
>> 	Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT
>> as per RFC 822.
>> However it does not seem to parse
>> 	Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 EST
>> correctly. It assumes it's GMT regardless of the timezone
>> specified. If I'm reading RC822 correctly, this is an error.
>
> Looks like we don't test anything but GMT :(
>
> Malcolm, mind to add the non-GMT tests to t/lib/TestAPRlib/date.pm in
> the source package, and we will work on fixing those? 

IMO this doesn't need fixing; if anything this is a doc bug.
The apr_date_parse_* functions assume GMT because that's the
timezone 2616 Section 3.3 requires.

        -- 
        Joe Schaefer

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