> tried (about 10-12 so far).
Jake,
Yep, as they should. Most aggregator authors try to parse anything you throw at them. The number of feeds out there with invalid <pubDate>s is staggering, so they're conditioned to simply ignore a bad date and carry on. But that can be annoying for readers... aggregators that stick to the spec (like Newzcrawler) will render all your entries with the date they were retrieved, making date sorting impossible.
> It's a fun non-standardized world, that RSS.
It's not that bad. Just pay heed to the spec (email address in <author>, RFC822 in <pubdate>) and run everything through the feed validator to see where you're at. It's relatively painless.
The only murky areas are related to escaping in <description>s and <title>s, and the inexplicable problem some folks have with figuring out how to use the isPermaLink attribute on the <guid> element.
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