Timestamp changes when showing up in aggregators

  • jamied66

    (@jamied66)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    I have an (I think) seriously oddball problem, and I’m looking for a little help.

    The situation: The timestamps for post on my website (www.lunacyforbeginners.com) show up correct on the website. The time is also correct on my admin page. When I look at my RSS feed (/feed) the timestamps are all correct on there, as well.

    When I look at my posts in an aggregator/newsreader (the two that I have the problem with are http://www.rvablogs.com and Google Reader) sometimes, NOT ALL THE TIME, the posts come up with a date of 08/30 or something close to there.

    I have checked:
    -my host (godaddy)
    -my rss feed
    -my admin pages
    -my actual database

    A perfect example of this is post #22. Titled “going retro”. If you look at the post on my website it has today’s date and the time I posted it correctly. But if you look at it in Google reader (and on the aggregator I’m a member of, rvablogs.com), it shows a date of 8/30.

    Can someone please help me track this problem down???!!!

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter jamied66

    (@jamied66)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE related to the fact that these posts have the same post id number as older posts that have since been deleted (because of a database/hosting snafu)?

    Thread Starter jamied66

    (@jamied66)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    I THINK I have solved the problem.

    Google Reader and the aggregator I was talking about had and used their cached info for the post ID’s.

    So when I wrote a post “17”, it overwrote the info they had for their link to post “17”, and gave it the date of the original post. This is all speculative, but I think it worked that way.

    My solution – I used phpmyadmin and changed the post ID of the most recent post to 100. The next one will be 101, and so on. Since my first database only had approx. 80 entries, I won’t have any more “repeats”.

    Does this make sense to the people who know the code?

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