pubDate and dc:date variance

["Jason Brome" <jason@methodize.org>]

Hi,

I'm in the process of building full support for the pubDate and dc:date
elements into nntp//rss.  Initial testing against my blogroll has shown most
feeds that support either of these two standards to be reasonably compliant
against the spec.  However, that said, I remember reading a blog item from
someone a while back that highlighted the range of less-than-compliant
values that had been seen within these two fields.

Does anyone have any empirical data on what values have been seen in these
fields from different feeds?  I'm not only looking to make the logic parse
dates that are in spec, but also to be lenient where dates are not so
compliant.

Any help is most appreciated!

Best regards,

Jason

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Jason Brome
nntp//rss Project
jason@methodize.org