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authorIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2016-06-08 21:15:26 -0700
committerIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>2016-06-09 15:32:48 +0000
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time: document that RFC822/1123 don't parse all RFC formats
Fixes #14505. Change-Id: I46196b26c9339609e6e3ef9159de38c5b50c2a1b Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/23922 Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke <emm.odeke@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
-rw-r--r--src/time/format.go3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/time/format.go b/src/time/format.go
index 13c2bb6e52..c2ae793020 100644
--- a/src/time/format.go
+++ b/src/time/format.go
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ import "errors"
// use of "GMT" in that case.
// In general RFC1123Z should be used instead of RFC1123 for servers
// that insist on that format, and RFC3339 should be preferred for new protocols.
+// RFC822, RFC822Z, RFC1123, and RFC1123Z are useful for formatting;
+// when used with time.Parse they do not accept all the time formats
+// permitted by the RFCs.
const (
ANSIC = "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006"
UnixDate = "Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 MST 2006"