| Subject: | Atom feed dates are invalid... |
| Date: | Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:06:54 -0700 |
| To: | bug-XML-Feed [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | John SJ Anderson <genehack [...] genehack.org> |
...and the handling of the 'issued' and 'modified' attributes in Entry
objects in general seems sub-optimal (you require a DateTime object to be
provided to set the value, which is converted to a string, which is
converted back to a DateTime object upon being read?)
The W3C validator has this to say about the dates:
This feed does not validate.
-
line 14
<http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgenehack.net%2Fatom.xml#l14>,
column 32: updated must be an RFC-3339 date-time: 2015-03-13T00:00:00 (20
occurrences) [help
<http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/InvalidRFC3339Date.html>]
<updated>2015-03-13T00:00:00</updated>
This is because an RFC-3339 date-time is required to either have an
appended time zone offset (e.g., -0500, +0200) *or* is required to use an
appended 'Z' to show UTC. There should be a 'Z' on the end of the date-time
string above.
I'm willing to provide a patch to fix this but I thought I'd check to see
if this module is still being maintained? Is there interest in patching
this?
thanks,
john.