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Posted by Pugi! on 10/11/08 11:55
I live in central european timezone and currently we are GMT +0200.
I have my own (valid) RSS. The data is stored in database and my RRS feed is
in fact a php page that retrieves the information from the database.
Concerning the lastbuilddate and pubdate. I enter the time (=pubdate) as a
local date/time (CET), the webserver is in the same timezone. But wether I
use
$pubdate = date("D, d M Y H:i:s O", strtotime($row->pubdate));
or
$pubdate = date("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime($row->pubdate));
feedreaders like RSSOwl and FeedReader show the same date and time
regardless of the 'O'.
Question 1: the date/time in "D, d M Y H:i:s O", for example "Mon, 14 Aug
2006 15:32:30 +0200" What does it exactly mean ? Is it 15:32:30 GMT plus 2
hours equaling 17:32:30 CET ? Or is it 15:32:30 CET with 2 hours difference
to GMT, equaling 13:32:30 GMT ?
Question 2 : Do feed readers only look at the date/time and ignore the
difference to GMT ?
Question3: Is this important enough to bother ? For me not, but I can
imagine that for a newssite or stock exchange feed the exact date and time
of publication can be very important.
thanx,
Pugi!
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