Views always puts GMT time in the
field even if the content has been published in a different timezone.

Drupal creates the content correctly: 2009-03-11 12:01:00 +0100
But in the RSS feed this appears as: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:01:00 +0000

This issue also exists in the Drupal core. http://drupal.org/node/254444
Maybe it will be never committed to the 6.x branch, but it would be great to be fixed in Views.

Please commit it to views_plugin_row_node_rss.inc file.

Thanks.

Comments

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Critical » Minor

Ok, this issue isn't even remotely critical. The fact that you marked it critical strikes me as abuse. This is simply an issue in timezone display in RSS, everything functions. It is not clear to me this is even a bug, as the Drupal RSS coders clearly intended this.

It also strikes me that changing this will change everyone's RSS feeds whether they like it or not. So that's a bad thing.

At best I could throw in a switch that used timezone formatting or not, depending upon the option. At that point, though, it's a feature request.

mfb’s picture

mfb
they or he
commented

having all the dates in GMT is perfectly acceptable. RSS aggregators parse the dates and translate them all to one time zone (or unix time stamps in the case of Drupal aggregator module).

slampy’s picture

slampy commented

I think we should continue this discussion on this page: http://drupal.org/node/254444

esmerel’s picture

esmerel commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

If this is a problem with core, that's where it should be fixed.