Problem with date of feed NewsTopica 3.0.2

[marcos]

Hi,

i've problem con feed date in newstopica category.

When i've 2 or more rss feed, second feed has wrong date..

see here please..

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First 10 feed (1° rss url ) is ok (date = 9 days 12 hours 56 minutes ago)

11 feed (2° rss url) has wrong dare (date = 13321 days 7 hours 56 minutes ago ) :eek:

can you help me?

Thanks

Marcos

[David]

Better provide the urls of both feeds here.
Thanks

[ping]

I've also encountered lots of feeds that ended up with a 3978 days old time stamp in the latest version.

[marcos]

Hi,

news?

Marcos

[meandean]

Content visible to registered users only.Hi Marcos,

I'm just a customer like you -- but you might want to run your feeds through a validator first -- before blaming NewsTopica.

I did, your second feed uses a buggy date format. Here is error message (http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telefonino.net%2Frs s.asp%3Fch%3Dvodafone) I got when I checked it:
column 21: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: 19 Giugno (14 occurrences)

Even without the validator, it is quickly clear to that tags such as "<pubDate>19 Giugno</pubDate>" do not comply with the 0.91 specification (http://backend.userland.com/rss091) that reads:
"All date-times in RSS conform to the Date and Time Specification of RFC 822 (http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc822.html)."

Here is a comprehensive enough explanation of what's wrong (http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/InvalidRFC2822Date.html) with the feed date format (and not NewsTopica's date processing) - that perhaps you could email to the publisher of the feed.
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[ping]

Well perhaps Newstopica shouldnt let us add non valid feeds in the first place ...

[meandean]

Content visible to registered users only.You have a good point.

I would suggest logging an invalid feed - and perhaps a flag on the administrator feed validation screens to identify the feed as invalid.

Having run some aggregate systems of some couple thousand cites/feeds in the past, it happens ...

... meaning there are bloggers and news services that want to get syndicated, but don't bother to completely read and/or understand the publish specifications for eitehr RSS or Atom.

Others just have a bad habit of adding invalid cruft to their content!

Having a way of managing this would help.
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