"Simon Johnson" <simon.johnson@g...> wrote in message
news:f03d8ae0.0408040123.612ec35@p......
> I'm trying to create an RSS 2.0 [1] compliant feed but I'm meeting
> some confusion over the pubDate element.
>
> It clearly states next to the pubDate that the date should be
> formatted in compliance with the specification given in RFC 822. They
> even give the following date as an example:
>
> "Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT"
>
> However RFC 822 [2] clearly states that the year portion of the date
> should contain two digits and not four. Which format is RSS 2.0
> compliant. The four digit year or the two digit year?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
> [1] - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
> [2] - http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc822.html#sec-5

If you read the whole text about pubDate in [1] you will see that it says:

"All date-times in RSS conform to the Date and Time Specification of RFC
822, with the exception that the year may be expressed with two characters
or four characters (four preferred)."

Also, RFC 822 is superseded by RFC 2822 which specifies 4 digits for the
year.



// Magnus