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Posted 6/8/2008 2:40:54 AM
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I took me a while to realise that the date is in US format - first thinking that there was something wrong with the system and I was just getting old feeds from months ago, before I noticed that day and month are the "wrong" way around.

I have noticed that there already various requests for a option to have European style date format (dd/mm/yyyy). That would be great, because now it is very confusing if you are not used to the US format.

Can there also be an option to have the time in European format (24 hours / day) instead of the 2 x 12 hours a day ?

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Posted 6/9/2008 3:03:13 PM
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This is actually a bug. It seems that this formatting was removed at some point. This was an oversight on our part. We have submitted a case to our Platform team to reinstate the MMM/DD/YYYY formatting. We apologize for any inconvenience.

(Case 138194)


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Posted 6/12/2008 3:00:06 PM
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This problem has been resolved. The date format is back to MMM-dd-yyyy. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Keith Franklin
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Posted 10/3/2008 1:30:45 PM
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Sorry, in feed like this "http://www.meteowebcam.it/rss/Brentino+Belluno.xml" I receive correct date on 29/09/2008 (29 september) and a terrible date on 10/03/2008 (3 october), this is sorted as 10 march 2008, what's wrong?

validator.w3.org say there's a problem on this feed, they're a lot of italian/european feed like this, can you insert a property which say what kind of date use on every feed?


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Posted 10/3/2008 1:57:27 PM
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The feed definitely has an incorrect date. The feed validator report specifies the time format (RFC-822, the help link explains more).


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Posted 10/4/2008 6:49:54 AM
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Jonathon McDougall (10/3/2008)
The feed definitely has an incorrect date. The feed validator report specifies the time format (RFC-822, the help link explains more).


Yes, I wrote "validator.w3.org say there's a problem on this feed".

...and what about "insert a property which say what kind of date use on every feed"?
I think it could be usefull.


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Posted 10/6/2008 2:52:12 PM
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RFC-822 is the international standard defining how the time should be formatted... The help link on Feed Validator explains more so that the feed publisher knows how to put the time in correctly.

In other words there is no need to put in a property defining what the time should look like because RFC-822 already does it.



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Posted 11/14/2008 10:13:29 PM
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I agree with Divino on this. 

I subscribe to feeds that supply the date in dd/mm/yyyy format.  It is not RFC-822 compliant, but there it is.  Some dates expressed as nn/nn/nnnn can only be valid with dd and mm one way round.  E.g. 14/11/2008 can only be 14th November.  Newsgator correctly interprets these dates as dd/mm/yyyy.  Where NewsGator has a choice of interpreting the date as dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy - i.e. both are valid dates, but only one is correct - it chooses to go with mm/dd/yyyy.  So the same RSS feed supplying a date like 07/11/2008 will be interpreted by Newgator as 11th July whereas it is intended to mean 7th November. 

The end result is that posts in the feed are dated correctly if the date of the month is more than 12, whereas all other posts are dated incorrectly.  Many posts are subsequently listed well into the future or in the distant past, and this is difficult to work with when the dates are important.

It would be very useful if there was a way to configure a specific feed in NewsGator / FeedDemon such that it will understand that it is going to find nn/nn/nnnn dates and these should be should be interpreted as dd/mm/yyyy.  As I explained above, NewsGator is already capable of interpreting in this way.  The problem is that it chooses not to if the result is still a valid date.  Therefore I came to the same conclusion as Divino, that it would be great if NewsGator could have a property on the feed that allows the user to specify that the feed dates are dd/mm/yyyy format.

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