From 894803c11e4eab128869be759463510580a68602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:15:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand --- src/time/format.go | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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" -- 2.48.1