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boneyard_11131
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Nov 24, 2016

crafting a RFC1123 timestamp for Date header in an iRule

for crafting a HTTP response i the need a timestamp in RFC 1123 format for the Date header. example: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:34:09 GMT i was able to get most of it within a clock format line set ...
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Kai_Wilke
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Nov 24, 2016

Hi Boneyard,

I'm using the syntax below to generate RFC1123 timestamps.

[clock format [clock seconds] -format "%a, %d %h %Y %T GMT" -gmt 1]

Note: 

-gmt (0|1)
is a bolean value to enable|disable GMT/UTC timezone. So make sure to use 
-gmt 1
.

Cheers, Kai