Hi,
Currently I can work with your nice module.

But when I look at the sitemap, I see the posting dates of articles like 2009-09-12T04:55:23+00:00
Should not this consider my site's time zone? It should be like 2009-09-12T07:55:23+03:00 based on the site's time zone settings

Thanx

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dave reid
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Status: Active » Fixed

Nope. The sitemaps.org specification (which the Google News sitemap specification is based on) says to only use the W3C date format, which prefers to use UTC or 'Z' to indicate no timezone offset. The PHP constant used (DATE_W3C) uses UTC, or +00:00.

See:
http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#xmlTagDefinitions
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74288
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

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serkan.arikusu commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Thank you, didn't know this.

dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Status: Closed (fixed) » Fixed

No problem. :)

FYI just leave issues as fixed. They will automatically be marked closed after two weeks of inactivity, and this way people that have the same question can find it until it's marked closed.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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