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About the RFC 1123 Date Format

Date and time values returned by the Approver.com Web Services API are formatted according to the RFC 1123 standard. An RFC 1123 date/time value looks like this:

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:11:29 GMT

Note that Approver.com's servers are synchronized to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which may be different than the time zone in which your application executes. The time returned by a call to the Approver.com Web Services API will always be a GMT value.

Approver.com avoids making use of absolute date values as a semi-crafty dodge to avoid having to deal with the vagaries of time zones, summer time (known as daylight savings time in the U.S.), and so forth. Instead, we use relative time values such as "4 minutes ago," "a second ago," and so forth. You are, of course, free to adjust this time value to the local time in which your application is executing.