Hi,

I noticed that when I view my blog using FeeDdemon 1.5, the "date stamp" is when I downloaded the article in to FD, not when the article was published.

But other blogs, the "date stamp" indicates when the article was published, not when FD viewed the downloaded.

As an example:

My blog:
Specious Argument:  http://www.speciousargument.com/blog/
Atom Feed: http://www.speciousargument.com/blog/atom.xml

Friend's blog:

Daily Options Report: http://adamsoptions.blogspot.com

Atom Feed: http://adamsoptions.blogspot.com/atom.xml

When I view the feed source, I can see that the published and updated times are listed.  I am using Movable Type's atom template straight out of the box without modification. So I am curious as to why my time stamps appear to be when the article was downloaded and not when it was published.

Thank you.

Kevin

critter42,

Interesting.  When I right-click and add a published column to FeedDemon, my blog doesn't list any times.  Other blogs do show a published time, though I am not sure if they are using RSS or atom.  But when I look at Newsgator, it shows the published times for my blog.

When I view the source, using FeedDemon, of my atom feed, I see the following:

<id>tag:www.speciousargument.com,2006:/blog//1.251</id>
   
<published>2006-03-11T23:35:00Z</published>
<updated>2006-03-11T23:35:42Z</updated>

So there is definitely a published time there.

I am not sure what to think. Any ideas?

Kevin

Hi,

According to http://www.bradsoft.com/support/faq/faqitem.asp?id=86, it discusses the use of the "pubDate" tag.

But as shown in an example (example on page 3) by the Internet Engineering Task Force as shown http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt , it uses the tag "published" for the atom feeds.

As I stated in an earlier message, my atom feed uses "published" yet no published dates are shown in FeedDemon.  The only dates that are shown are the dates when FD 1.5 retrieved the feed from my blog.

I have asked Movable Type, and they believe that their atom template for MT 3.2 is fine.  I deleted my prior MT 3.2 atom template and started fresh.  It was unmodified before.  However, with the new template the problem continues to exist.  Is there anything that I can do to have FD show the publication date?

The reason for this request is that if you were to begin to access my blog today, then 15 posts would appear as though they are written today.  I believe when I did this a few days ago, the posts were in the incorrect order because there was no publication date listed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kevin