tpodowd/boto — comment on commit a544aa5f3794b4f86b59ddad6b83611db4fd6d17
File: boto/auth.py line 140
By mfschwartz:

Why is this needed? The gsutil no-op auth handler doesn't add a date header, and it works fine.
Is this code leftover from cloning/editing HmacAuthV1Handler, which does require a date header?