Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Format of "Expires: " header?
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.163529.5403@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4036@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 16:35:29 GMT

In article <4036@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>|Expires: 11/10/89
>|Expires: 10 Oct 89 00:00:00 GMT
>	It was always my understanding that the proper "Expires: " format is
>as in the second example.  Is the first (mm/dd/yy) also legal?

In practice, most anything that getdate() will understand is a reasonable
choice.  In theory, it ought to conform to RFC822 as well, which the first
format does not.  Use of the first format is a dumb idea for another reason
too:  it's ambiguous.  (US custom puts month first, British custom puts
day first.)
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