From 8a160d5de1763614ab1a86107e779b0afd151ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Evans <drhevans@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 12:00:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use `usegmt` flag in formatdate

Slightly cleaner and faster than string manipulation.

This flag has been available since Python 2.4:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/email.util.html#email.utils.formatdate
---
 django/utils/http.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index 4647d89847..e397acad5b 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ def http_date(epoch_seconds=None):
 
     Outputs a string in the format 'Wdy, DD Mon YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT'.
     """
-    rfcdate = formatdate(epoch_seconds)
-    return '%s GMT' % rfcdate[:25]
+    return formatdate(epoch_seconds, usegmt=True)
 
 def parse_http_date(date):
     """