seems the Windows (MSVC) libc time functions may return data one hour off if
TZ is not set and automatic DST adjustment is enabled. This made
curl_getdate() return wrong value, and it also concerned internal cookie
expirations etc.

VS2005.

that feature 64 bit 'long'.

Some systems have 64 bit time_t and deal with years beyond 2038. However, even
some of the systems with 64 bit time_t returns -1 for dates beyond 03:14:07
UTC, January 19, 2038. (Such as AIX 5100-06)

week day names and month names and servers don't like that.

it anymore

I was previously #ifdef'ing to a different look when this parser is used

made it deal with named time zones as well as mail-style +0200 ones.

Seems to work fine. I'm comparing with GNU date command:

date -d [date] -u +%s

work with this