Returns a string which represents the time as rfc1123-date of HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616:

day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss GMT

Note that the result is always UTC (GMT).

Source Code

# File time.rb, line 422
def httpdate
  t = dup.utc
  sprintf('%s, %02d %s %d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT',
    RFC2822_DAY_NAME[t.wday],
    t.day, RFC2822_MONTH_NAME[t.mon-1], t.year,
    t.hour, t.min, t.sec)
end