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RSS uses incorrect date format #2

Closed paulsnar closed 3 years ago

paulsnar commented 3 years ago

First of all, I really appreciate you having an RSS feed on your blog even without using any of the pre-made platforms or tools for doing so.

Unfortunately, when I tried adding it to my feed reader, the dates are all wrong, mostly because they're in a freeform format, but as per the spec, they should be RFC 822 conformant.

I'd love to have filed a pull request to fix this if it were a code issue, but I couldn't find any pertinent code, and it doesn't appear any of this repository has a license attached so it'd be a bit of a grey area.

Cheers!

paulsnar commented 3 years ago

Also relatedly, it's a good practice to add a \ along with the \ (same value can be shared for both—or, I believe, you can omit the \ if the \ doesn't have a isPermaLink="false" and it'll work the same in most cases) so that feed readers can more easily tell whether an \ has been seen before; the fuzzy algorithms they try to apply if there's no \ can get funky sometimes.

Side note, this is in part why I am impartial to Atom over RSS, given that it's more concrete and less freeform and therefore easier to consume programmatically, but it can cut both ways depending on the content. There are more fancities such as JSON Feed too, but that's probably too esoteric.

hirrolot commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry for that, I'm quite new to all this blog posting stuff.

I've fixed <pubDate> and placed <guid> instead of <link>. Does it work now?

paulsnar commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry for that, I'm quite new to all this blog posting stuff.

It's alright, as I said, having a feed at all is a refreshing thing to see, and regardless, live and learn :)

I've fixed \ and placed \ instead of \. Does it work now?

It seems to for me (in particular with NetNewsWire). I'll let you know if anything else pops up. Cheers!