A number of ATOM feeds use the "updated" tag to denote the time of creation rather than "published" or "issued". This isn't the best use of ATOM semantics but given it's the only time information we have, it's better to take it than default to NOW.

The issue at http://drupal.org/node/1027020 provides a patch which solves this problem for the 6.x version of feeds. The issue has been marked RTBC since June 2011, so I'm guessing it's dead in the water.

The same patch applies to 7.x-2.x, so I've rerolled it and am posting it here.

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Title: ATOM parser ignores "updated" tag » [PATCH]ATOM parser ignores "updated" tag
Priority: Normal » Critical
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

It's pretty annoying to see all the atom feeds with a timestamp of the import time, pushing others pages back.

I had to use... patch -p1 < atom-updated-tag.patch ... and it didnt' take the blank lines at the beginning/end, but it still works

More official looking link to other issue:
#1027020: ATOM parser not getting 'updated' date from Ning feeds

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Title: [PATCH]ATOM parser ignores "updated" tag » ATOM parser ignores "updated" tag
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs review

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10-4

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

As for this patch, I don't know much about ATOM, but I'm trusting in the development of the D6 issue and committing this.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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