From 7dee8d61407c5b6850f936bf3612de397adea52d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:51:27 -0400
Subject: SPF 2.0: Give date(1) command for RFC 5322 date format

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(limited to 'specs/spf-2.0')

diff --git a/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn b/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn
index 6ca9049..51334bd 100644
--- a/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn
+++ b/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn
@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ more distribution names, separated by spaces.
 field must follow the syntax of the `mailbox` symbol of RFC 5322 section 3.4.
 
 `date` is the date of packaging.  This field must follow the syntax of the
-`date-time` symbol of RFC 5322 section 3.3.
+`date-time` symbol of RFC 5322 section 3.3.  The following **date**(1) command
+gives the current date and time in the correct format:
+
+    $ LC_ALL='POSIX' date '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'
 
 
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