309352 - support dc:date in RSS2? - time of message in feed is time of download, not time the message was posted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 316868

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[17correira]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Using the RSS feeds on Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908), I notice that the time
listed in the 'Date' column in the message pane in the time the message was
downloaded, not the actual time the message was posted. This cause messages to
be out of order when sorted by date

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Subscribe to a feed (I think it should happend with all of them)
2.Make sure you have 'Check for new articles every XX minutes set'
3.When new articles are automatically downloaded, they should have the time of
the download, not the time of the message

Actual Results:  
Showed the time the message was downloaded

Expected Results:  
Showed the time the message was posted/added to the feed.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think current date is only used in case no date is provided by the feed, or
(maybe) the provided date is invalid.

Any particlar feed? Otherwise WFM.

Comment 2

[17correira]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/corner.xml
 That only one of several. The current DATE is NOT shown, only the TIME the
message is pulled from the feed. This morning I didn't have this problem, then I
download 1.5, and now I have this problem.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

In that RSS2 feed, dates are given as
<dc:date>2005-10-03T12:41:33-05:00</dc:date> which would seem to be ok.
Currently dc:date seems to be supported only in RSS1. RSS2 feeds should
preferably use <pubDate>...

Do we want to support <dc:date> in RSS2 feeds? 

Confirming for consideration. ->NEW

Comment 4

[Chris Mildebrandt]

Here's an interesting blog entry on this topic:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/06/21/history_of_rss_date_formats

Comment 5

[Robert Sayre]

Yeah, if the feed has bothered to include dc:date, we should use it.

Comment 6

[Robert Sayre]

The patch mscott just checked in for bug316868 should fix this, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316868 ***