handling dates

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I came across an interesting situation with regard to the RSS feed validator.

The feed in question:
http://www.aquarionics.com/meta/all.rss

It's using PHP's date formatting functions to produce a string like this:
"Mon,  4 Nov 2002 08:00:10 +0000"

Note, it's got two leading spaces on the day date of the month number.  This is,
apparently, legal within the RFC822 (superceded by 2822 by the way)
specification.  The validator, until Sam Ruby fixed it, didn't like that leading
space.

http://feeds.archive.org/validator/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aquarionics.com%2F
meta%2Fall.rss

This only applies to non-RSS-1.0 formatted feeds as those use the less
problematic W3CDTF formatted timestamps.

My question is will other RSS reader programs have a problem with dates
formatted in this fashion?

-Bill Kearney