Dates

[Sam Ruby]

Matteo Calorio wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a new user of Planet-Venus, a great piece of software I was looking for 
> since some time. I use it to cache some feeds when I can't follow them for 
> some time. I use Akregator to actually read the news from an installation of 
> Planet-Venus on a server. I use planet-venus 0~bzr95-2 on Debian Squeeze 
> (Planet Venus 95). Everything works like a charm, but I have problems with 
> dates:
> 
> 1. with this feed (and only with this) all articles are dated 1:59AM or 2:00AM 
> of the correct day: 
> http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/topnews/synd/ansait_site_topnews_synd_Today_Idx.xml

The feed has a problem with the pubdates provided:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ansa.it%2Fsite%2Fnotizie%2Fawnplus%2Ftopnews%2Fsynd%2Fansait_site_topnews_synd_Today_Idx.xml

In particular, no time zone information is present.

> 2. in Akregator I see the dates on which articles were downloaded from 
> original servers, but I would prefer to see the original article dates: is it 
> possible with some configuration?

No.  If the dates can't be resolved, Venus will assign the current time.

> Regards,
>   Matteo

- Sam Ruby