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

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

>> 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 somethin=
g
>> 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.

I compared strtotime to parse_w3cdtf in as many senerios as I could.  I
found that strtotime works better in all cases.  I've switched to using
for handling all feed timestamps.


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Kevin