Rafael Dulfer <rafael@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > like. "`--date=default` is the default format. It is a custom format > based on rfc2822". But the thing is it is *not* custom based on rfc2822. The default format came first, 2822 much later. If I have to guess (and I shouldn't because I was around back when we invented that format, but I am lazy and my recollecion hazy), it came straight from the result of ctime() but with timezone info appended at the end.
