[Johannes Fritz]

As said, activating show date shows always the todays date instead of the date from rss feed

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rss feed url is: https://kultusministerium.hessen.de/newsletter-feed

[Aakash Chakravarthy]

Hi Johannes,

The reason is that, the “date” is incorrectly formatted in the RSS feed.

Please see the report below.
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkultusministerium.hessen.de%2Fnewsletter-feed

Example:
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22905935/306961

Current format in the feed is,
<pubDate><time datetime="2023-12-19T16:04:57+01:00">19.12.2023</time></pubDate>

Thanks,
Aakash

[Johannes Fritz]

Thanks for the info. Does this mean that as long as the external RSS feed url does not use the correct format, I have no chance of displaying the correct date?

[Aakash Chakravarthy]

Hi Johannes,

Yes, if the RSS format is incorrect then any reader would display the same.

It is indeed possible to hack around with the code to fetch the date from the feed, but it would be just a workaround.

If possible please check with the feed owner if that format can be changed. Otherwise let me know I will dig through the code and see if something can be done. You might have to keep the plugin without updating.

Thanks,
Aakash

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