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| author | Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> | 2004-10-11 13:53:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> | 2004-10-11 13:53:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 3dd9e461618b0964312fa3c649cf03c7bfe27827 (patch) | |
| tree | b8c98e967b38f936410f4e3fddda413bc9c8db3d /Doc | |
| parent | 7f468f29f49786988e4f1a005174578fc83c7eb9 (diff) | |
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Added a usegmt flag to email.Utils.formatdate - this allows it to be
used to replace rfc822.formatdate for protocols like HTTP (where 'GMT' must
be the timezone string).
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/emailutil.tex | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/emailutil.tex b/Doc/lib/emailutil.tex index c41f066..b93a2b9 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/emailutil.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/emailutil.tex @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ changes in daylight savings time, though not worth worrying about for common use. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{funcdesc}{formatdate}{\optional{timeval\optional{, localtime}}} +\begin{funcdesc}{formatdate}{\optional{timeval\optional{, localtime}\optional{, usegmt}}} Returns a date string as per \rfc{2822}, e.g.: \begin{verbatim} @@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ Optional \var{localtime} is a flag that when \code{True}, interprets \var{timeval}, and returns a date relative to the local timezone instead of UTC, properly taking daylight savings time into account. The default is \code{False} meaning UTC is used. + +Optional \var{usegmt} is a flag that when \code{True}, outputs a +date string with the timezone as an ascii string \code{GMT}, rather +than a numeric \code{-0000}. This is needed for some protocols (such +as HTTP). This only applies when \var{localtime} is \code{False} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{make_msgid}{\optional{idstring}} |