614804 - Request for support YYYY/MM/DD in "pubDate" tag in RSS feeds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 403955

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[keyser soze]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/ 20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 

TB does not support YYYY/MM/DD format,
Then, RSS feeds that has a <pubDate> tag with that format
are parsed into "31/12/1969 09:00 p.m."

It would be nice that TB be aware of <pubDate> tags with that format

This feed demonstrates the issue:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Xml/Rss/articles



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a subscription to "http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Xml/Rss/articles"
2. you will check that every feed has the date "31/12/1969 09:00 p.m."
3. this is because TB does not support a RSS feed with <pubDate> tag formatted "YYYY/MM/DD"
Actual Results:  
the same

Expected Results:  
the correct date and time, whatever format given in <pubDate> tag

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Maybe a dup of the see also bugs but I'm not sure so not dumping.

Comment 2

[keyser soze]

Ludovic,

this incident is not exactly as Bug 333547
by the other hand, it is similar, in some way, as Bug 403955

i don't know if YYYY/MM/DD is considered a "standard" format
but some feeds use it