def timeAsrfc822 ( theTime ) : import rfc822 return rfc822 . formatdate ( rfc822 . mktime_tz ( rfc822 . parsedate_tz ( theTime . strftime ( "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S" ) ) ) ) if __name__ == "__main__" : import datetime print timeAsrfc822 ( datetime . datetime . now ( ) )