Merge pull request #7 from eldipa/Enforce-RFC2822-for-Dates

Enforce RFC 2822 for the dates of the posts/emails

feed2maildir/converter.py

@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 import os
 import random
 import sys
+import time
 
 if sys.version[0] == '2':
     from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 else:
     from html.parser import HTMLParser
 
 import dateutil.parser
+import email.utils
 
 # Python 2.x compabitlity
 if sys.version[0] == '2':
@@ -185,6 +187,11 @@ def compose(self, title, post):
             updated = post.updated
         except: # the property is not set, use now()
             updated = datetime.datetime.now()
+
+        # convert the time to RFC 2822 format, expected by MUA programs
+        d = dateutil.parser.parse(updated)
+        updated = email.utils.formatdate(time.mktime(d.timetuple()), usegmt=True)
+
         desc = ''
         if not self.links:
             if self.strip: