[wp-xmlrpc] Problems with dateCreated in metaWeblog.newPost/editPost

[Joseph Scott]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:

> Joseph, I think your instinct to be skeptical because of the lack  
> of complaints among blog clients, is correct.
>
> Have you confirmed the problem? I just tested with MarsEdit and  
> setting a date on a new post seems fine, with a cargo like:
>
> 			<member>
> 			<name>dateCreated</name>
> 			<value><dateTime.iso8601>20080414T06:27:14Z</dateTime.iso8601></ 
> value>
> 			</member>
>
> There may be something nuanced that is wrong with the API, but it's  
> not affecting me. I suspect it's not affecting other clients,  
> either.  I haven't looked closely at the fix that the bug reporter  
> is proposing. As long as it doesn't break the current working  
> behavior I'm not opposed to it.


Thanks Daniel.  I suspect what was happening is that they were  
sending the date as a string instead of dateTime.iso8601.  I'm not  
sure why I didn't think about that earlier.

I'll follow up with the ticket on Monday.

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Joseph Scott
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