The format of date is of course written and described in the RFC's, and
have to formatted
to that specific format in all systems, I think. Hardly no system outputs
the correct format by
some syscall.
Kinda like Ebay that sends official notices with "-0800GMT" as the timezone
on the date. I sent a complaint to them that their date format was broken,
and after demanding the full mail message with all headers from me, they
analyzed it for three days and informed me that it was indeed sent from
Ebay, and gave me the link on how to detect phish mails. Thanks Ebay, you
are SOO smart.
Loren
