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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/email')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/email/Utils.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/email/Utils.py b/Lib/email/Utils.py index 237b686..93e0a83 100644 --- a/Lib/email/Utils.py +++ b/Lib/email/Utils.py @@ -106,13 +106,16 @@ def encode(s, charset='iso-8859-1', encoding='q'): def formatdate(timeval=None, localtime=0): - """Returns a formatted time as specified by RFC 2822, e.g.: + """Returns a date string as specified by RFC 2822, e.g.: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 01:08:47 -0000 - Optional timeval if given is a float time as accepted by localtime() or - gmtime(). Optional localtime is a flag that when true, interprets and - returns a time relative to the local timezone instead of UTC. + Optional timeval if given is a floating point time value as accepted by + gmtime() and localtime(), otherwise the current time is used. + + Optional localtime is a flag that when true, interprets timeval, and + returns a date relative to the local timezone instead of UTC, properly + taking daylight savings time into account. """ # Note: we cannot use strftime() because that honors the locale and RFC # 2822 requires that day and month names be the English abbreviations. |