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RSS feed message date/time

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:10 am
by lgharis
All messages in my RSS feed have a date of 12/31/1969 6:00 PM. I know some of us live in the past, but all of us on the same date/time. Kind of scary. I am using SharpReader. Is this a problem with the feed or the reader?

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:07 pm
by ray.wurlod
That date looks suspiciously like "just before 01/01/1970", which is the base date for so many things. I'd suspect the problem is in the feed. :cry:
Is anyone else getting this date? Does anyone else even look at the date?!!

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:21 pm
by chulett
Hmm... I use Trillian Pro. No dates are displayed, as far as I know, so can't really help here. :?

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:51 am
by whardeman
Thanks for bringing this to our attention folks. I also use Trillian Pro and have never even seen an RSS date before today.

Ray was right as usual--the feed was misreading the post's timestamp (it didn't even recognize that it was a timestamp) and thus spitting out the date of the unix epoch (or the day before). :?

The issue should now be resolved. Thanks again for letting us know about this. :D