Thanks John, we'll have a look. Kevin.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Leach >Sent: 11 December 2006 13:09 >To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk >Subject: [backstage] Have Your Say broken timestamps in RSS feeds > >Hi, > >whilst adapting News Sniffer[1] to the new Have Your Say RSS feed >format, I found some mangled timestamps with the time >exceeding 24:00:00. > >For example, in the recent "Pinochet death" thread[2] feed[3] there is >an item with a dc:date field of "2006-12-11T24:40:03+0000". >The pubDate >field translates this to "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:40:03 +0000". > >Even if the poster (Alex Golzari) lives on Mars he'd have trouble >posting a comment with this time stamp. This leaves only Mercury and >Venus. Either than or a bug in the HYS software. > >Assuming a bug, I've written a workaround for News Sniffer but >you might >want to look into this. I can't find a time format standard >that allows >times exceeding 24:00:00. > >John. >http://johnleach.co.uk > >[1]http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk >[2]http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=4954 >[3]http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/rss/rssmessages.jspa?threadI D=4954&numItems=500 >- >Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To >unsubscribe, please visit >http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
