On Sun, 02 Apr 2017, Benoît Minisini wrote: > Le 02/04/2017 à 18:07, Tobias Boege a écrit : > > Hello all, > > > > I wrote an RSS feed generator for one of my projects recently and could > > luckily complete also the parser before the new semester starts tomorrow. > > So you get a gb.rss component in the latest revision #8117. > > > > It should support all the things that are mentioned in the RSS 2.0 > > specification here [1], but there are still some problems: > > > > * The date conversion routines ignore timezones completely, because > > I have no clue about working with timezones in Gambas. > > As I don't know RSS, can you elaborate? What do you need to do exactly > with timezones? >
The items in an RSS feed (and the feed itself) contain publication dates such as Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:00:00 GMT At the moment, when I read this string into a Date and use it in a Gambas application, the timezone is ignored, i.e. it will be the 7th Sep 2002 at 10:00:00 *system-local timezone*, which is not correct. You can see this when you serialise the RSS object into an XML document again. It gives: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:00:00 +0100 because my system is in +0100 now. I don't know how this situation is best handled. The Gambas Date type is not big enough to carry timezone information, is it? Then I would have to convert the given time to the system timezone 10:00:00 GMT -> 09:00:00 +0100 which results in the XML output Sat, 07 Sep 2002 09:00:00 +0100 later, which is not identical to the source but at least represents the same point in time. But I could image that being able to set the target timezone explicitly would be desirable, e.g. when your RSS feed item represents a story in a German newspaper, but your server runs in a US timezone. Regards, Tobi -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
