517049 - Date column shows 'unknown' in List View

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Mozilla Labs :: Snowl, defect)

Description

[u335796]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.14
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When you 
1. Subscribe http://www.pro-linux.de/backend/pro-linux.rdf
2. then open the List View
3. and finally look at the date column of the "Pro-Linux" source you will see every entry lists the date 'unknown'

I had a quick look if, and if yes, in which format/pattern the date of the the entries of the feed is.

And YES there is a date for each entry in the xml which look like this one here:
<pubDate>Wed Sep 16 19:02:14 2009</pubDate>

So what's the problem here?
What I think:
Is the format of this date of the source wrong 
OR can snowl not parse this date (or does snowl parse it wrong)???

I found out most of the other sources I have subscribed use this date format:
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:32:43 +0200

And just for more detailed Information (maybe it helps?) here is the header of the pro-linux.rdf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"
"http://www.rssboard.org/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">

Is this the fault of snowl OR from the site because they maybe don't provide the right date-time format?



THE BIG PROBLEM IS THIS RUINS THE WHOLE LIST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SORT BY DATE CORRECTLY!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe http://www.pro-linux.de/backend/pro-linux.rdf
2. Open List View
3. Look at the date column of the "Pro-Linux" source. Every entry lists the date 'unknown'

Comment 1

[alta88]

the feed's date you listed is indeed invalid rss 0.91 pubDate (rfc822) format.  please contact the site and have them make the trivial fix (it's even a tech oriented site).

i have no issue sorting; the 'invalid' text is appropriate for a malformed date.

Comment 2

[alta88]

meaning 'unknown' rather..