WPUser_NY

Thank you for the suggestion.

That’s what I am thinking too is that probably feed-rss2.php may not be the file that’s invoked when the RSS is picking the data.

But feed-rss2.php file is what is referenced in other posts too, though the posts were not specific to resolving this issue with updated date.

Are you suggesting that this section be updated in feed-rss2.php to replace rss2_item mentioned in do_action(‘rss2_item’) with rss_item?
Please clarify.

<item>
		<title><?php the_title_rss() ?></title>
		<link><?php the_permalink_rss() ?></link>
		<comments><?php comments_link_feed(); ?></comments>
		<pubDate><?php echo mysql2date('r', get_the_modified_date('Y-m-d H:i:s')); ?></pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[<?php the_author() ?>]]></dc:creator>
		<?php the_category_rss('rss2') ?>

		<guid isPermaLink="false"><?php the_guid(); ?></guid>
<?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>]]></description>
<?php else : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>]]></description>
	<?php $content = get_the_content_feed('rss2'); ?>
	<?php if ( strlen( $content ) > 0 ) : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php echo $content; ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php else : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
		<wfw:commentRss><?php echo esc_url( get_post_comments_feed_link(null, 'rss2') ); ?></wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments><?php echo get_comments_number(); ?></slash:comments>
<?php rss_enclosure(); ?>
	<?php
	/**
	 * Fires at the end of each RSS2 feed item.
	 *
	 * @since 2.0.0
	 */
	do_action( 'rss2_item' );
	?>
	</item>

Can you please explain why you think that it might solve the issue?

Yeah, i am looking at the actual feed that’s pulled from source, so its not cached. It displays the published date, and not the updated date.

Would it be possible to use firebug or some such tool to look at the DOM structure that’s pulled when the feed is generated? or maybe trace which files are being invoked for populating the rss section?