[Fofredux-devel] Re: time parsing with RSS1.0 and Atom feeds

[Saul T. <sa...@ta...>]

> my first time jumping in here, so allow me to first say thanks for picking
> up this great project again.  (if you guys are still active...saw that the
> dev mails were only up til late Feb at sf.net).
> 
> In the course of doing a complete overhaul of my server this week, it was
> time to get a fresher feeds reader, and naturally i went with something i
> knew, as i had been using fof for well over a year now.
> 
> After installing fofredux, and importing my feeds and their corresponding
> items (i don't delete anything), i noticed that updates on some of the feeds
> were losing their dates.  They were in fact defaulting to 01-01-1970, and it
> was all atom (see anything at blogger.com) and RSS1.0 (e.g. slashdot), which
> is actually the Atom format.  RSS 2.0 feeds are fine.

My first time, too.

I've had the same problem, which cropped up when I upgraded
my system from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5. That, of course,
changes versions of every layer, including PHP (to 5.1.2) and
mysql (to 5.0).

I've downloaded the latest release candidate, used a new database,
and still had the problem.

The fix that's noted (replace parse_w3cdtf with strtotime) fixes
the problem.

I have no PHP skills at all, so I can't even begin to speculate
on the cause, but thought you folks should know that this isn't
an isolated problem.

Thanks for all your work on fofredux. It's indispensable to me.

	- Saul

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