RSS Ticker shows date as 1/1/0001

Hi Sammy

What feed URLS work and which don't?
What version of server and client do you use?
What OS are you running on?

Those three tags (although not capitalised as you have them) are the only three that are broadly supported by all the client versions.

Alex

Anything from cnn or Espn dont here is one example link
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

here is the one from our local news station that does work
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kwtv/warnteamforecast.rss

using the 1.2.0 R2 Server/Client

and these are running on Windows XP / with all SP's and Patches.

It seems to be if the date/time field is in a non-GMT timezone.

Alex

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Im not Following?

Are you saying that CNN and other Major News Sites RSS feeds are wrong? Or what is the issue here?

Why should a time zone matter? Or does Xibo not account for that.

It's simply an observation - the feed you gave lists the timezone as EDT, where as all the feeds I have that work are listed in GMT - even ones that aren't UK specific.

So I'm not saying that CNN are wrong - I'm just saying that their feed has the time expressed in EDT and others don't.

The timezone matters because there will be some code in the client that parses that string and extracts a date/time from it for display - and evidently it's not coping when the timezone isn't GMT for some reason.

Alex

Ok Im not understand then I Guess? Is it something that needs to be fixed in Xibo or something on the RSS Feed side? Also I tried changing the time zone on the PC to match the timezone of the feed just to see, and its the same results.

Is there a workaround I can do for this?

I've opened a bug and we'll look at it.

Alex

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Also I can confirm this is only on the .Net version. The python client
handles it fine.
On Sep 26, 2010 9:33 AM, "Dan Garner" <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Bug #645307 status changed in Xibo:
>
> New => Confirmed
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xibo/+bug/645307
> ".net Client shows non-GMT dates as 01/01/0001"
>
> This bug is linked to #126420.
> RSS Ticker shows date as 1/1/0001
> https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/126420
>
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Thanks Sammy,

C# doesnt support the timezone extensions when it tries to parse a
date/time. Basically because they are non-unique - so for now I have just
stripped them out and will display the feed date/time rather than the local
date/time.