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by MichaelGG 4104 days ago
Twilio was the most shocking example. They use that braindead[1] "RFC" style that includes day of week and month name in English. I remember feeling it looked like the most ugly part of their API; no reason for this silliness. (Maybe they've changed it since I looked a few years ago).

1: It made sense in like the early 70s when people read and wrote all headers by hand. It's been stupid for a much longer time than it made sense though.