Akregator shows wrong time for atom-feeds after 12:59am

[danielwbn]

Binary package hint: kdepim

this bug might be related to the 24h clock and a timezone problem: akregator sorts articles whose time ist after 12:59 (am) (for example 15:25, which is 3:25 pm) under 2:25 (am) which causes new articles to be shown in the wrong place when beign sorted by time. I'll attach a screenshot to clarify.

This bug does not affect rss2-feeds

Kubuntu 7.10
akregator version 4:3.5.7enterprise20070926-0ubuntu2.1

[danielwbn (daniel-heinrich-germany)]

another screenshot from the same articles but the rss2 feed. times are correct here

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Does the problem still occur in Hardy? If so what version of Akregator do you currently use? Likewise, what version of KDE?

For the sake of eliminating the obvious, is it all atom feeds or just that one?

thanks

[danielwbn (daniel-heinrich-germany)]

Hi,
I can no longer observe this behaviour in my version of akregator, version 1.3.3, KDE 4.1.3. (apt tells me akregator's version is 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid2)

What I do observe now, is that *some* feeds (mostly atom) are listed at the time I downloaded them, although the feed provides the time the news was created. This also happens for one of my rss-feeds.
So instead of seeing all the news in chronological order when I sort by date I first get all the feeds that work correctly and then all the feeds that don't, all with the same time (the time I downloaded the feed).

Is this related to the bug I initially reported or should I file a new bugreport? (Or is it not a bug at all?)

[danielwbn (daniel-heinrich-germany)]

Oh, here are some feeds that work:

http://www.kde.org/dotkdeorg.rdf
http://www.tomshardware.com/de/feeds/rss2/tom-s-hardware-de,12-1.xml

and these don't:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml
http://www.tomshardware.com/de/feeds/atom/tom-s-hardware-de,12-1.xml
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/extimages/rss/pcghutf8.xml

[Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf)]

I have given a look at Akregator 1.4.0 which comes with Jaunty, and I get the download date in the date column for all the feeds you mention.
None of them shows the news publication date.

Do you really get the news publication date for some of the feeds ? Could you maybe post a screenshot ?

[danielwbn (daniel-heinrich-germany)]

Using Akregator 1.4.0 (Intrepid w/ KDE 4.2 from ppa) i definitely get the news publication date for the following feeds:

http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml
http://www.tecchannel.de/news/feed/complete.rss
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml

while the download date appears for this feed:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/extimages/rss/pcghutf8.xml

I'll add a screenshot for "proof". Today I left home at about 18:30 (PC was shutdown) and didn't return until about 23:30.

[Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf)]

I've given a look at the feeds you posted and I think the date problem is in the pcgameshardware.de feed, which doesn't provide the pubDate information for each item.

If you open those feeds in a text editor, you will see that for example tecchannel.de provides a pubDate for each item (I cut most bits to avoid spamming) :
<item>
  <title>Cisco kommt mit Unified Computing System</title>
  <link>(...)</link>
  <description>Cisco hat ein Unified Computing System vorgestellt. (...)</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:09:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <guid>http://rss.(...)</guid>
</item>

While pcgameshardware.de doesn't. The publication date is inserted in a strange format inside each items description :
<item>
  <title>Cebit 2009: Der schönste Arbeitsspeicher der Messe</title>
  <description>(16.3.09 18:7) Die folgenden Speicherriegel sind (...)</description>
  <link>(...)</link>
</item>

Thus Akregator logically falls back to using the whole feed's publication date (which *is* provided by the pcgameshardware.de feed) for each item.
You should probably contact pcgameshardware.de for this matter and I think you may as well close this bug if you don't experience the bug you initially reported anymore.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yeah, not worth pursuing anymore.