Hi!
The reason is that in order to format a DateTime object as GMT, it needs to be converted to GMT... and you can't simply do that with just a constant consisting of a string of format characters.
I see what you mean and it makes sense, having constant may imply that you can use it with any date and get proper result... But RFC2616 is the one of the most used formats on the Web - actually, the format that is called COOKIE is not the one that should be used in cookies - RFC2616 should be used instead. COOKIE one uses T, which may or may not be GMT, depending on the date and local system settings. Maybe we should have proper RFC format too, accompanied with appropriate warning that you should use it with GMT dates (or gmdate())?
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