Re: MODIFIED date off by one

It worked perfectly.

Thanks Steve!

On Jun 10, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Steve Eidemiller wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
>
> We had the same problem. In our case, we were using local dates/ 
> times for meta data fields, and htdig was parsing them as being in  
> the UTC time zone. We are GMT-6, so everything got 6 hours  
> subtracted from it by htdig, sometimes decrementing the date too.  
> Your example below doesn't have a time value, so my guess is that  
> htdig would assume midnight UTC, subtract several hours from that  
> to convert to your local time zone, and decrement the date  
> accordingly on almost every page. Search results would then be  
> displayed in your local time zone. You could test that theory by  
> finding a document having a date on the 1st of a month and see if  
> it gets reported as having a date on the last day of the previous  
> month. Our solution was to convert our meta dates to UTC. We could  
> do that easily because all of our meta tags are dynamically  
> generated by a server side include.
>
> Hopefully that helps :)
>
> Thanx
> Steve
>
>
>>>> "Chuck Phillips (Console, Inc.)" <[email protected]>  
>>>> 06/10/05 1:27 PM >>>
>>>>
> We're experiencing strangeness with setting the use_doc_date config
> to true. Every single page indexed displays the meta date minus 1 day.
>
> For example:
>
> Our config file contains:
> use_doc_date: true
>
>
> Here is an example meta Date tag embedded in a page being indexed:
>
> <META NAME="Date" CONTENT="2005-01-21">
>
>
> Yet the search results for this page shows a date of:
>
> 01/20/05
>
>
> The issue is consistent. Every search result is displaying the day
> before the Meta Date of the actual page.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Chuck
>
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