httpdate()
public
Returns a string which represents the time as rfc1123-date of HTTP-date
defined by RFC 2616:
day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss GMT
Note that the result is always UTC (GMT).
time library should be required to use this method as follows.
require 'time'
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def httpdate
t = dup.utc
sprintf('%s, %02d %s %0*d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT',
RFC2822_DAY_NAME[t.wday],
t.day, RFC2822_MONTH_NAME[t.mon-1], t.year < 0 ? 5 : 4, t.year,
t.hour, t.min, t.sec)
end