Re: Saving Bandwidth on RSS Feed Details

* Rogers <[email protected]> [2009-10-15 14:20]:
> My thinking was that because the namespace was centered on RSS,
> it would be better to use its date-time format. If it was
> expanded to support Atom, I would have used RFC 3339 since that
> format is easier to parse.

It’s not just ease of parsing, it’s also 2- vs 4-digit years
(are you using RFC 822 or RFC 2822 format?), and the presence of
redundant information (the day name) that allows for properly
formatted but invalid dates (Fri, 15 Oct 2009 15:57:08 +0200).

I see no upside to this attempt at consistency. RFC 3339
datetimes are nearly trivial to parse (which of course was the
whole point of that RFC), and in any case are already supported
by anyone who parses either Atom or the Dublin Core RSS extension
elements.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>


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