In order to conform to the standard date for RSS, it's necessary the date format of: D, d M Y H:i:s T

When Drupal is not configured for English, the above date format produces a non-conforming date for RSS feeds as "Mon" for Monday in English then becomes "Lun" in Italian for example. Ideally, the Date module would provide a number formatted for DATE_RSS, but as there are 500+ issues in the queue, I don't think it's going to be done anytime soon.

Can we look at a way of implementing this feature into Views RSS, allowing for international sites to also use this excellent module?

Here is a quick hack I implimented recently: (the format for the date I am using does not have the time, just the date so I filled in the time with 17:00:00

// Expects a date begining with the formatting: YYYY-MM-DD (2010-10-28)
$timestamp = mktime(17, 0, 0, substr($item['pubDate'], 5, 2), substr($item['pubDate'], 8, 2), substr($item['pubDate'], 0, 4));

$item['pubDate'] = date(DATE_RSS, $timestamp);
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#13 Screen Shot 2012-12-19 at 15.57.17.png62.88 KBscuba_fly

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andrewsuth’s picture

andrewsuth commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Sorry, mine issue is a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/703980

eiland’s picture

eiland commented

i feel a bit not too smart, but where did you apply your hack? in the views_rss module?

I tried everything and my view keeps on returning <pubDate>Tue, 2011-07-19</pubDate>
which doesnt validate for the feed, no idea where to change it.

gagarine’s picture

gagarine commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-2.0-rc3
Category: feature » bug
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

I don't think it's a duplicate and it's still present in D7.

MauMau’s picture

MauMau
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commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Here's a quickfix:

Make a template. Mine is

/sites/all/themes/fluffytoys/templates/views-view-field--nodequeue-2--feed-2--created.tpl.php

and make it say

<?php
print date('r', $row->node_created);
?>

This will probably give you a valid, english RFC 822 compliant date.

If not

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US");
print date('r', $row->node_created);
setlocale(LC_ALL, "nl_NL");
?>

might help.

Testing: paste the preview from views into
http://validator.w3.org/feed/#validate_by_input
to check if you're getting RFC 822 right

Further reading:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

juc1’s picture

juc1 commented

@ MauMau or anyone - will the template suggestion in #4 work for 6.x-2.0-rc3?

Thanks

plazik’s picture

plazik commented

#4 works for me in 7.x.

juc1’s picture

juc1 commented

@ Plazik or anyone - sorry for being thick but does #4 give the entire tpl.php file or just a part of it?

Thanks

plazik’s picture

plazik commented

Juc1, it's full tpl.php file.

juc1’s picture

juc1 commented

@ Plazik, sorry is this the entire file??

<?php
print date('r', $row->node_created);
?>

Thanks

plazik’s picture

plazik commented

Yeah.

juc1’s picture

juc1 commented

OK thanks - but last thing can you please tell me how I work out the name of the template instead of
views-view-field--nodequeue-2--feed-2--created.tpl.php ?

Thank you

plazik’s picture

plazik commented

Why instead of?
Use the name what Views tell you. My name like this views-view-field--nodequeue-2--feed-2--created.tpl.php

scuba_fly’s picture

scuba_fly
Location Netherlands, Vinkeveen
commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed
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I got stuck with this issue as well but after setting the field to 'Custom date format' and placing r in the field it now shows up as the RFC822 date-time format and my feeds validates in the w3c feed validator.

So I think you can call this fixed although it would be nice to set it to the english version by default.

For reference I've included a screenshot:
there was a screenshot here

As a site note I'm using Views 7.x-3.5 but I think that it is fixed or can be fixed by using the described method. If not reopen the issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I can not confirm that this is fixed.

It seems to work for the build date of the feed, but not for the pubDate of the feed items.

It may seem to work, if the translated date happens to be the same as the one in English (ie it worked in April for German sites, but stopped in May).

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I am not sure why, but it's fixed for me now...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

zarudnyi’s picture

zarudnyi commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Reviewed & tested by the community

Solution from # 13 works for me.
I think we have to have it in the module for all non-english feeds by default.
Thanks.

whatdoesitwant’s picture

whatdoesitwant commented

Solution #13 only applies to entity metadata (dateinformation on the node (created date, edited date). It does not work on date-fields.

finex’s picture

finex commented

Using 'r' instead of 'D, d M Y H:i:s O' works fine. Thanks.

ciss’s picture

ciss commented
Category: Bug report » Support request
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Nothing to review. Setting to support request and closing, as this seems to match the conversation and solution.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

aiphes’s picture

aiphes
Primary language French
commented

#20 help me to fix the issue with the D8 version. Thanks