bramley
09-23-2004, 12:10 PM
The RSS feeds for the forum that Rob has drawn my attention to are great.
I've been trying the RSS2 feeds, with NetNewsWire 1 and the public beta 2.03, and have no problem - except for some funny time stamps.
The time stamping of the posts seems out, and I'm not sure if the issue is with NetNewsWire, or at the forum end with vBulletin. Essentially the xml code for the timestamps looks like:-
<dc:date>2004-09-23T15:48:04-04:00</dc:date>
i.e the post was made at 15:48:04 GMT - 4 hrs or 11:48:04 forum time. But here (British Summer Time +1hr GMT) NetNewsWire displays it as 20:48:04 i.e 5 hours ahead of my actual time! Which is a tad confusing!
The thing is this a problem confined to NetNewsWire, or are all users seeing the same thing I am? i.e is vBulletin not using standard time stamping or is there a bug in NetNewsWire.
If I knew which it is, I could send feedback to Ranchero for NetNewsWire 2.0, or we could persuade Rob to change the stamps to plain GMT (assuming he thinks this is possible.) like this:
<dc:date>2004-09-23T15:48:04+00:00</dc:date>
This seems to work OK here - and I think would work right elsewhere.
Presumeably, anybody in the same timezone as the forum's time zone need not respond as you won't notice any difference. Well, you shouldn't notice a difference. :)
I've been trying the RSS2 feeds, with NetNewsWire 1 and the public beta 2.03, and have no problem - except for some funny time stamps.
The time stamping of the posts seems out, and I'm not sure if the issue is with NetNewsWire, or at the forum end with vBulletin. Essentially the xml code for the timestamps looks like:-
<dc:date>2004-09-23T15:48:04-04:00</dc:date>
i.e the post was made at 15:48:04 GMT - 4 hrs or 11:48:04 forum time. But here (British Summer Time +1hr GMT) NetNewsWire displays it as 20:48:04 i.e 5 hours ahead of my actual time! Which is a tad confusing!
The thing is this a problem confined to NetNewsWire, or are all users seeing the same thing I am? i.e is vBulletin not using standard time stamping or is there a bug in NetNewsWire.
If I knew which it is, I could send feedback to Ranchero for NetNewsWire 2.0, or we could persuade Rob to change the stamps to plain GMT (assuming he thinks this is possible.) like this:
<dc:date>2004-09-23T15:48:04+00:00</dc:date>
This seems to work OK here - and I think would work right elsewhere.
Presumeably, anybody in the same timezone as the forum's time zone need not respond as you won't notice any difference. Well, you shouldn't notice a difference. :)