Simplified django.utils.feedgenerator.rfc2822_date().
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ For definitions of the different versions of RSS, see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110718035220/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss
"""
import datetime
+import email
from io import StringIO
from urllib.parse import urlparse
@@ -32,24 +33,9 @@ from django.utils.xmlutils import SimplerXMLGenerator
def rfc2822_date(date):
- # We can't use strftime() because it produces locale-dependent results, so
- # we have to map english month and day names manually
- months = ('Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec',)
- days = ('Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun')
- # Support datetime objects older than 1900
- date = datetime_safe.new_datetime(date)
- # Timezone aware formatting. email.utils.formatdate() isn't tz aware.
- dow = days[date.weekday()]
- month = months[date.month - 1]
- time_str = date.strftime('%s, %%d %s %%Y %%H:%%M:%%S ' % (dow, month))
- offset = date.utcoffset()
- # Historically, this function assumes that naive datetimes are in UTC.
- if offset is None:
- return time_str + '-0000'
- else:
- timezone = (offset.days * 24 * 60) + (offset.seconds // 60)
- hour, minute = divmod(timezone, 60)
- return time_str + '%+03d%02d' % (hour, minute)
+ if not isinstance(date, datetime.datetime):
+ date = datetime.datetime.combine(date, datetime.time())
+ return email.utils.format_datetime(date)
def rfc3339_date(date):
