id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 5869 Incorrect description for the NOW format string's 'r' flag xavier.morel@… nobody "In the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/ Templates documentation], the Now tag's format character `n` is indicated as creating a ''RFC 822 formatted date.'', but the example output `'Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200'` is an RFC 2822 date format: [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#section-5 RFC 822 section 5.1] defines `date` as {{{ date = 1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT ; day month year ; e.g. 20 Jun 82 }}} which only has 2-digits year notation. On the other hand, [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.3 RFC 2822 section 3.3] defines `date` as {{{ date = day month year year = 4*DIGIT / obs-year month = (FWS month-name FWS) / obs-month month-name = ""Jan"" / ""Feb"" / ""Mar"" / ""Apr"" / ""May"" / ""Jun"" / ""Jul"" / ""Aug"" / ""Sep"" / ""Oct"" / ""Nov"" / ""Dec"" day = ([FWS] 1*2DIGIT) / obs-day }}} with `year` being either 4 digits or 2 digits (`obs-year` refers to RFC 822 year formatting)" closed Documentation dev fixed Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0