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RSS feeds with non standard <pubDate>

  • November 29, 2010 at 5:07 am

    #229184

    Hi

    I found that the tag <pubDate> in the RSS feeds

    has a non standard format YYYY/MM/DD

    The valid formats are established in RFC 2822

    This, in my case, causes Thunderbird don't understand the actual date

    Specifically, Thunderbird converts every date in the date "1969/12/31 09:00 p.m."

    I opened a ticket on Bugzilla (for Thunderbird)

    this is the link to the incident https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614804

    but people there rejected it because the RFC

    I think they are right, the answer is reasonable

    Feeds are very useful

    But please, review the format

    and replace it with a standard one

    I sent several mails to "webmaster@sqlservercentral.com"

    but I don't hace a response

    thanks for consider this issue

  • November 29, 2010 at 10:05 am

    #1256325

    Everyone has different ways to consume this and working with most of the world, the yyyymmdd is the most acceptable. The US prefers mmddyyyy, but that doesn't work in Europe.

    I don't think we'll change this, and I'm not sure why Thunderbird cannot understand this format.

    I also don't see a specific format specified in that RFC.

  • November 29, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    #1256538

    Hi Steve

    I didn't dig very much on the RFC

    but I get that feedback from Bugzilla

    the date format I'm refer to is "yyyy/mm/dd"

    that is, including the "/" symbol

    the format yyyymmdd you mentioned, without "/"

    is working fine with Thunderbird

    the problem is the "/"

    how I test it?

    I simply download the xml file, change pubDate

    and then point to the modified,local file from Thunderbird

    I think it wouldn't be a very hard work to "normalize" the pubDate,

    UTC for example, whichever, all other formats works with Thunderbird

    with the exception of yyyy/mm/dd

    it would be: yyyymmdd or yyyy-mm-dd at least ???

    thanks

  • November 29, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    #1256544

    I'll check and see. I'd have thought the "/" was universal, but changing to "-" shouldn't be hard.

  • November 30, 2010 at 4:53 am

    #1256699

    OK! thanks for consider my comments!

    regards

  • December 2, 2010 at 6:29 am

    #1257829

    You did it!!!! it works fine now !!!

    thanks very much!

    I love you 😛 !!!

  • December 2, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    #1258172

    You are welcome. The change was small, and a deployment occurred today.

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