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m-ivanov opened this issue Dec 30, 2015 · 2 comments
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time: RFC1123 format should not say "UTC" #13781

m-ivanov opened this issue Dec 30, 2015 · 2 comments
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after reading a couple of times the RFC1123 i think that strings returned by time.Format(time.RFC1123) is not correct

fmt.Printf("\n\nthis is not RFC1123  %s \n\n", time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC1123));
// Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:10:40 UTC

searching around i found a post that reflect mo opinions about
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25658897/is-utc-a-valid-timezone-name-for-rfc-1123-specification

i know that the format already exist and is "http.TimeFormat" but what i want to point out is that the term "time.RFC1123" is wrong/inexact and just bring more confusion
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title Incorrect time.RFC1123 format , return UTC instead GMT time: RFC1123 format should not say "UTC" Dec 31, 2015
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Looking at RFC 1123 and RFC 822, it does seem that a date in that format should say "GMT" or "UT" but not "UTC". I think it would probably be a mistake to change the behavior of time.RFC1123 at this point, but we could at least document the discrepancy. Note that the RFCs recommend the use of what Go calls time.RFC1123Z.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added the Documentation Issues describing a change to documentation. label Dec 31, 2015
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CL https://golang.org/cl/18314 mentions this issue.

@rsc rsc closed this as completed in 39c3e0f Jan 6, 2016
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