Comments on: Is there a reason why the RSS feed doesn't use pubDate?

Is there a reason why the RSS feed doesn't use pubDate?

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:11:58 -0800

Is there a reason why the RSS feed doesn't use pubDate?

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:13:06 -0800

I know RSS has quite a history of conflicting specs, but pubDate should be valid RSS 0.91. It would be nice to be able to see how old the posts are and be able to sort them by date if I haven't checked the feed in a while. Is there an issue I'm unaware of, or could this be implemented?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:36:31 -0800

See here. Does that feed look ok? If so, I'll move the feeds up to RSS 2.0.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:39:03 -0800

Everyone needs a pub date.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:01:11 -0800

Sweet! Works perfectly well in Thunderbird. Having the author is nice, too. Firefox kicked back this xml error when I clicked the link directly, but I'm guessing that's because there's no standard way to give the author without extending to a new namespace?:

XML Parsing Error: prefix not bound to a namespace
Location: http://xml.metafilter.com/rss2-test.xml
Line Number 19, Column 2: JPowers

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:10:47 -0800

Oh, it looks like that was covered in the previous metatalk. Do you need to include the namespace in the rss tag?

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:18:33 -0800

Self confirmed. Changing the rss tag to read:

rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

...fixed the error.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:20 -0800

I fixed it.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:30:45 -0800

Ok, I officially moved the RSS feed on mefi over to 2.0. If I get no complaints, I'll update the other feeds this week as well.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:18 -0800

Super rad. Hopefully the only complaint will be that you gave me a pony that could have gone to someone else. Thanks a ton.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:34:58 -0800

has anyone seen my pony?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:49:21 -0800

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the times right in Safari? The Atom one seems to be using GMT and the RSS one looks like it's PST. I am in neither, of course.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:57:19 -0800

smackfu, due to the nature of RSS, I can't create a custom timestamp for everyone. Your RSS parser should know what to do with them (both feeds tell parsers their timezone, so they should be able to adjust accordingly.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:07:07 -0800

Stupid Safari.