[wp-hackers] Feed date format and locale not using blog settings. Bug or feature?

[Heiko Rabe]

Please have a look at "RSS Specifications for Creation of Rhode Island 
Government Information Exchange Feeds"

http://www.ri.gov/rex/downloads/RSSelements.pdf

Several goverments take care about language field of RSS (use google an 
you will find a lot f) and also refere to W3C who states, that not only 
the "en-us" is valid but all languages also meet HTML lang fields.
HTML is a subset of XML family and RSS too. so all of them have to 
publish their correct language they depend on even if no reader is 
interested!

This leads to supporting at least a filter for WordPress RSS feed, so 
user can make the decision if the pass it back to WordPress or if they 
modify it depending on feeds content (in term of multi-ligual blogs).

This force only "en-us" is not the way it should be.

regards

Heiko

> FYI, I just added this to the Codex.
>
> See:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=WordPress_Feeds&action=edit&section=7
>
> grtz
> BjornW
>
>   
>> Ok, before I add it to the Codex:
>>
>> The time/date format of feed should NOT be localized since the the current RSS
>> specifications are referring to RFC822 which specifies English as a default.
>> This implies that every RSS consumer should take care of translating time/date
>> according to its locale.
>>
>> Any remarks hints or tips before I add it to the codex?
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback so far!
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> grtz
>> BjornW
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> On 11 Feb 2009, at 11:39, DD32 wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Once again, No.
>>>> Simply for the fact, That Feed readers do not understand different
>>>> languages, The RSS spec (along with most other spec's and software) is
>>>> written with English as the common format..
>>>> If the spec makes no mention of it, Its not going to be supported by
>>>> implementations of it, I do see that people would want it shown in
>>>> their native tongue, IMO, Feed readers should be able to translate the
>>>> time from a english-centric date/time into the users custom format (or
>>>> language format).
>>>>
>>>> I somewhat think Internationalisation might be something that would be
>>>> included in future spec's though.
>>>>
>>>> 2009/2/11 Bjorn Wijers <burobjorn at gmail.com>:
>>>>         
>>>>> Good point.
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked at the RSS spec[1] and it refers to RFC822[2] which states
>>>>> (I glanced
>>>>> over it) that the current time/date format as used by Wordpress is
>>>>> the correct
>>>>> one. I've added this to the Codex[3]. However as far as I know it
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> mention anything on the localization of this? So my question on if this
>>>>> could/should be localized remains.
>>>>>
>>>>> LINKS
>>>>> [1] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
>>>>>
>>>>> [2] http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc822.html
>>>>>
>>>>> [3]
>>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=WordPress_Feeds&action=edit&section=7
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> It must not be localised.
>>>
>>> It must conform to the RFC which is specific about the format of the
>>> date/time string.
>>>
>>> The only change that RSS makes is it relaxed the rules on year to accept
>>> 2 digit years (But they should be avoided anyway as they are ambigious)
>>>
>>> westi
>>>       
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