That's odd. Why...

That's odd. Why don't any versions of RSS have an element (or attribute) for the date/time an item was posted? Time is key to weblogs.

Jun 27^th, 2002, 9:51 am

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version 1.0 does, just include the dublin core namespace, and you can use the date element.

dublin core: http://www.purl.org/dc/

look in my feed for an example:
http://www.perceive.net/xml/articles.xml

I don't use the date element in items although I should, but I do use it elsewhere.

by Eric on Jun 27th, 2002 at 10:22 am

Thanks for the info, Eric. Most folks are still using 0.91, though, and adding the time for each item isn't as simple. (Though you could probably add a rogue "timestamp" attribute to the item elements without breaking current aggregators.)

by pb on Jun 27th, 2002 at 11:11 am

I've also seen many folks use the pubDate element for each item. Just as an addition.

For example, see Mr Winer's RSS 0.94 feed here: http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml

by Bill on Jun 27th, 2002 at 11:51 am

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