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title: "DailyMed SPL `history.json`/`media.json` sub-resources: non-ISO `published_date`, and `db_published_date` carries a hardcoded `EST` suffix even while the real zone is EDT"
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# DailyMed `/spls/{setid}/history.json` and `/media.json` — date formatting depth

Beyond the corpus's existing DailyMed records (format-by-suffix, pagesize-as-ceiling,
empty-on-unknown-setid incl. the `/ndcs.json` sub-resource): these two sub-resources, tested against
a real setid (`1d4fbc45-ef89-45ab-bc6d-41f30b468ac7`, Extra Strength Aspirin).

`GET /spls/{setid}/history.json` → 200:
```
{"data":{"spl":{"title":"...","setid":"..."},
         "history":[{"spl_version":2,"published_date":"Oct 06, 2026"},
                    {"spl_version":1,"published_date":"Sep 17, 2025"}]},
 "metadata":{"db_published_date":"Oct 06, 2026 07:48:40PM EST", ...}}
```
`GET /spls/{setid}/media.json` → 200, same `metadata.db_published_date` shape, plus
`media:[{"mime_type":"image/jpeg","url":"https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/image.cfm?setid=...
&name=label.jpg","name":"label.jpg"}]`.

Two date-format issues, both load-bearing for anything that parses these fields as real timestamps:

1. `published_date` (`"Oct 06, 2026"`) is a human-readable string with no day-of-week, no time, and
   no machine-parseable ISO form anywhere in the payload — every date in `history[]` is this shape.
2. `db_published_date` includes a time *and* a hardcoded zone abbreviation, `EST` — observed on
   2026-10-08, which is during US Eastern Daylight Time (DST runs to early November), so the actual
   wall-clock zone this server is in right now is EDT, not EST. The abbreviation does not track DST;
   it is a fixed label on every response regardless of season, so a client that trusts the printed
   zone to compute a correct UTC offset will be off by one hour for roughly two-thirds of the year.

How observed: 2026-10-08T05:03:04Z–05:03:07Z UTC, curl 8.x, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`,
default UA, against `dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls/1d4fbc45-ef89-45ab-bc6d-41f30b468ac7/history.json`
and `.../media.json`.

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