Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes:

> RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
> described by this paragraph (ยง4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This patch
> replaces the RFC 822 by its latest evolution, RFC 5322, that specifies a date
> format suitable for Debian changelogs.
> ---
>  policy.sgml |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index d16df70..7e2365e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@
>       </p>
>  
>       <p>
> -       The <var>date</var> must be in RFC822 format<footnote>
> +       The <var>date</var> must be in RFC5322 format<footnote>
>             This is generated by <tt>date -R</tt>.
>         </footnote>; it must include the time zone specified
>         numerically, with the time zone name or abbreviation
> -- 
> 1.6.5.7

Seconded.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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