[wp-hackers] Another RSS Bug

[Mike Little]

On 11/05/05, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:21 -0700, Matthew Mullenweg wrote:
> > We might as well look at this while we're in there:
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32559
> 
> Not sure there's a problem here.
> 
> http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=1334
> 
> Ryan
> 

I agree, Ryan. 
Assuming the intention is to publish date/time stamps as UTC then the
code is behaving correctly.

The RSS 2.0 standard (here
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#optionalChannelElements )
explicitly states "All date-times in RSS conform to the Date and Time
Specification of RFC 822".
Which specification ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc822.html#sec-5.1 )
matches what we are using; though it allows any legitimate timezone.

Mike
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