Ticker feed with a negative timezone in pubDatefails

[Jay Munro]

When the pubDate in a feed has a timezone appended to the end of pubDate, the [date] field fails with a result of
01/01/0001 12:00:00 AM

As an example to reproduce add any feed from Yahoo Pipes, e.g.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=417bc9bf8f2542d12974dfcffeb3a61a&_render=rss

Notice in the feed the dates:
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:21:18 -0800</pubDate>

These get shown as 01/01/0001 12:00:00 AM

If the cached xml is manually tweaked to remove the negative: e.g.:
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:21:18 0800</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:21:18 +0800</pubDate>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:21:18</pubDate>

All the above display as 09/12/2010 02:21:18 AM

I would like to suggest a two step fix:
1) Bug: fix the code to ignore the -
2) Enhancement(?): Add code to support feeds with non UTC times.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

This came up before. I'll see if I can find what the fix was.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

What version version are you running?

There's an identical bug that was fixed for 1.2.0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/xibo/+bug/645307

Alex

[Jay Munro (munro-dsty)]

We are running 1.2.0 Windows client.

If this was already fixed then there must be some special conditions that we have that are causing this. It could be the client or the feed. Can you try running the Yahoo Pipes feed?
http:// pipes.yahoo. com/pipes/ pipe.run? _id=417bc9bf8f2 542d12974dfcffe b3a61a& _render= rss

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Harrington" <email address hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, 15 December, 2010 8:46:47 PM
Subject: [Bug 690587] Re: Ticker feed with a negative timezone in pubDatefails

What version version are you running?

There's an identical bug that was fixed for 1.2.0

https://bugs.launchpad.net/xibo/+bug/645307

Alex

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Title:
Ticker feed with a negative timezone in pubDatefails

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

I've not tested this still, but looking at the patch from the previous version of this bug I think I can see why it's still happening.

I think the code that removes the timezone from the string needs a little adjustment.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

A fix for this should drop out from this blueprint:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xibo/+spec/improve-net-rss-handling