Brent is Off by 4:55?

Posted March 3rd, 2003 @ 08:55pm by Erik J. Barzeski

Calling Brent Simmons. Paging Brent Smmons. Judi has uncovered a bug I believe I can confirm: feeds in NNW show up 4:55 off.

Some examples (the NNW-displayed time is a link to the article in question):

<dc:date>2003-03-03T17:35:17-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 12:40 PM

<dc:date>2003-03-03T18:00:19-05:00</dc:date> shows up as 1:05 PM

<dc:date>2003-03-03T17:44:09-05:00</dc:date> is shown as 12:49 PM

Any comments, anyone?

| Reply A View From Home
Posted 03 Mar 2003 at 9:24pm #

RSS feed date/time is off

Hmmm....I'm picking up my RSS 2.0 feed in NetNewsWire and I just noticed that the posted time is off by
| Reply Brent Simmons
Posted 03 Mar 2003 at 10:53pm #

It's a bug; it will get fixed.
| Reply codepoet
Posted 04 Mar 2003 at 10:07am #

Sounds to me like the timezone is being applied to the minutes field as well. You're in Eastern Time (GMT -05:00), right? =) 5 hours - 5 minutes = 4:55.
| Reply Erik J. Barzeski
Posted 04 Mar 2003 at 10:25am #

I think there's more to it than that. Some blogs that aren't working are in other time zones. I'm sure Brent will figure it out. I did a test case last night with the dc:date formatting, but it wasn't enough to sort out the problem. My code all worked. Not sure how Brent's getting the date/time for display in the column…
| Reply codepoet
Posted 04 Mar 2003 at 3:31pm #

It's probably due to ther fact that there are about four forms of dates and times out there and the bug exists in the parsing of one of them.

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