ASP Date question

On 2 Feb, 12:04, Toby A Inkster <usenet200... RemoveThis @tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> nospam wrote:

> What RSS requires, and what you are looking for is an RFC822-compliant
> date.

Be careful with that. RSS 1.0 and Atom use the W3C standard of ISO
8601 format
(see also RFC3339 and http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime )

It's just RSS 0.93 and RSS 2.0 that took the opposing view (probably
Winer's ego again) and switched to RFC822 format.

I hope that the OP's database stores them in native date format, not
as text strings. If they do, and they've used JScript for scripting
rather than VBScript, then this is easy to output however you'd like.
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Thanks for the info - I used the link and found subsequent code that worked
well for my scenario.

Cheers!
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Andy Dingley wrote:

> Be careful with that. RSS 1.0 and Atom use the W3C standard of ISO
> 8601 format (see also RFC3339 and http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime )
>
> It's just RSS 0.93 and RSS 2.0 that took the opposing view (probably
> Winer's ego again) and switched to RFC822 format.

IIRC, RSS 0.91 and 0.92 also used RFC822 format. In the wild, RSS 2.0, and
to a lesser extent, RSS 0.9x seem to be the most popular formats for RSS,
RSS 1.0 being relegated to a second-class citizen. Atom is catching on,
yes, but the original question wasn't about Atom.

Personally, I think the W3C's subset of ISO 8601 is a thing of great
beauty. RFC 822 dates are a lot more clumsy, embedding the day of the week
into the date, making purely lexical sorting impossible and tying a date
format to a particular language (English).

For what it's worth, as part of my hobby project <http://demiblog.org/> I'm
including a feed generator which outputs feeds in:

- RSS 0.91
- RSS 2.0
- Atom 1.0
- iCalendar
- HTML (hCalendar microformat)
- JSON
- Serialized PHP Data

The Feed generating classes are mostly finished, even if the project is far
from complete. It hasn't had much testing yet, so probably needs a little
debugging.

Source code is here:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/demiblog/blog/includes/DemiBlog/Feed...ass?vie

Licence is GPL.

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