Mailing List Archive: Re: REBOL Script to convert REBOL format to RSS XML

[REBOL] Re: REBOL Script to convert REBOL format to RSS XML

From: premshree:pillai:gm:ail at: 10-Jan-2005 19:20


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:18:08 EST, [SunandaDH--aol--com] <[SunandaDH--aol--com]> wrote:
> Premshree:
>
> > Umm, looks like to-idate generates dates of the type "Tue, 9 Mar 2004
> >  1:00:25 -0800" too, which would validate against the feed validator.
> >  However, this seems inconsistent(?). Maybe somebody who has a better
> >  idea can hack on this.
>
> You could fix or rewrite to--date yourself, if you wanted -- it's a mezzanine:

Yep, I realised that. IAC, Gregg had submitted a solution. See
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlYYDC

Whole thread: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlPFDC

>     source to-idate
>
> It would be good to fix it.
>
> I know the dates and times it produces are acceptable to many Internet
> applications (I've used the output of to-idate many times)

The values returned didn't validate for RSS feeds.

> But if it clearly doesn't meet the precise spec in RFC 822 -- which asks for
> 2DIGIT for time and date elements.
>
> Sunanda.
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