Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It looks like it is _almost_ correct. It should be >> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:57:55 +0200 >> instead of >> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:57:55 +0200 >> >> It is "day = ([FWS] 1*2DIGIT) / obs-day" in RFC2822. > > I think you are reading ABNF wrong. [...] > > See the definition of "hour" and friends a few lines below what > you quoted. It is defined as "2DIGIT / obs-hour" and that is > why we say "01:23:45" not "1:23:45" But it is "day = [...] 2DIGIT [...]"! Besides, that what other mailers do (I checked the post I replied via git-send-email to, i.e. your post). Although I don't think that it can cause any problems, like using locale date with non US-ASCII characters did... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html