(url-get-normalized-date): Simplify

to use `format-time-string'.  Always generate date in UTC, but
call it GMT for full compatibility with the RFCs.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/url/ChangeLog b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
index c7d0de58c81..d2c32afc204 100644
--- a/lisp/url/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/url/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-02-28  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
+
+        * url-util.el (url-get-normalized-date): Simplify
+        to use `format-time-string'.  Always generate date in UTC, but
+        call it GMT for full compatibility with the RFCs.
+
 2008-02-25  John Wiegley  <johnw@newartisans.com>
 
         * url-auth.el (url-digest-auth): If the 'opaque' argument is not
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-util.el b/lisp/url/url-util.el
index a1b68099e89..612d7445215 100644
--- a/lisp/url/url-util.el
+++ b/lisp/url/url-util.el
@@ -185,33 +185,10 @@ Will not do anything if `url-show-status' is nil."
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun url-get-normalized-date (&optional specified-time)
-  "Return a 'real' date string that most HTTP servers can understand."
-  (require 'timezone)
-  (let* ((raw (if specified-time (current-time-string specified-time)
-                (current-time-string)))
-         (gmt (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard raw
-                                                (current-time-zone)
-                                                "GMT"))
-         (parsed (timezone-parse-date gmt))
-         (day (cdr-safe (assoc (substring raw 0 3) url-weekday-alist)))
-         (year nil)
-         (month (car
-                 (rassoc
-                  (string-to-number (aref parsed 1)) url-monthabbrev-alist)))
-         )
-    (setq day (or (car-safe (rassoc day url-weekday-alist))
-                  (substring raw 0 3))
-          year (aref parsed 0))
-    ;; This is needed for plexus servers, or the server will hang trying to
-    ;; parse the if-modified-since header.  Hopefully, I can take this out
-    ;; soon.
-    (if (and year (> (length year) 2))
-        (setq year (substring year -2 nil)))
-
-    (concat day ", " (aref parsed 2) "-" month "-" year " "
-            (aref parsed 3) " " (or (aref parsed 4)
-                                    (concat "[" (nth 1 (current-time-zone))
-                                            "]")))))
+ "Return a 'real' date string that most HTTP servers can understand."
+ (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
+  (format-time-string "%a, %d %b %Y %T GMT"
+   (or specified-time (current-time)) t)))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun url-eat-trailing-space (x)