I wish HTTP would ISO 8601 for its dates, or anything sane in any case. Dates in HTTP headers are meant to be machine-readable, right? Then why use month names

I wish HTTP would ISO 8601 for its dates, or anything sane in any case. Dates in HTTP headers are meant to be machine-readable, right? Then why use month names instead of numbers? Why include the day name? "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT" is just silly. And that's just the preferred format; there are two other formats that are just as idiotic that recipients are supposed to understand. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.1.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.1.1