Strange pubDates in Dave Wiener's scripting news and others

[Andrew Tumashinov <cdrawn@mail.ru>]

Hello,

  1.
  
  i've   just   been  reported  by  a  few  bug  reports  telling that
  there's  something  wrong  with  the  pubdate  in  Dave  Wiener's's
  Scripting News (http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml).

  i've taken a look at it and found:

  <item>
    <description> _skipped_
    </description>
    <pubDate>1/1/1904; 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
    <guid>http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/09/26#When:12:00:00AM</guid>
  </item>
  
  but the rest of pubdates are something like that:

  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:15:42 GMT</pubDate>

  in other words, it's a date in rfc-822

  2. Another news feed gives me pubdates as:

  <pubDate>2002-09-26 19:41:14</pubDate>

  but as described here http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827
  there  should  be  a  "T" character between date and time. It's very
  easy to fix this problem though ;)

  What's  wrong?  Is  it  my  stupidity?  Please advice. Is there some
  date standarts in RSS?
  
-- 
Best regards,
  Andrew V. Tumashinov, ADC Software

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