News Metadata issue?

[Phoul]

The last couple days now i've had issues with calibre setting the date correctly on news articles, its constantly one day in the future =/
For example today (December 08) is showing up as news from Thursday December 09.


metadata.opf for xkcd:


<dc:title>xkcd [Wed, 08 Dec 2010]</dc:title>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="aut">calibre</dc:creator>
<dc:contributor opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="bkp">calibre (0.7.32) [http://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
<dc:date>2010-12-09T02:54:36.211550+00:00</dc:date>

[kovidgoyal]

the timestamp is in GMT speciafically 3:00 AM, which (guessing you are in the US) means it is correct.

[Phoul]

ok.. except the document itself is being dated and labeled for wednesday, and showing up on the reader as coming from the date of 09.. that doesnt make sense.

[kovidgoyal]

The date in the title in in your local timezone and the date the the date field is in GMT, and what's more specifies that it is GMT. That is perfectly correct. If your reader is misinterpreting the date in the date field as being a local date, then it is buggy.

[Phoul]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The date in the title in in your local timezone and the date the the date field is in GMT, and what's more specifies that it is GMT. That is perfectly correct. If your reader is misinterpreting the date in the date field as being a local date, then it is buggy.

I have heavy doubts the problem is my reader seeing as the only problem is the date. I can even point out where the problem is in the metadata.

[Phoul]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
		 xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
		 xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
		 xmlns:prs="http://xmlns.sony.net/e-book/prs/">
	<rdf:Description rdf:about="">
		<dc:title>Dilbert [Wed, 08 Dec 2010]</dc:title>
		<dc:publisher>calibre 0.7.32</dc:publisher>
		<dcterms:alternative>Dilbert</dcterms:alternative>
		<dcterms:issued>2010-12-09</dcterms:issued>
		<dc:language>en</dc:language>
		<dcterms:conformsTo rdf:resource="http://xmlns.sony.net/e-book/prs/periodicals/1.0/newspaper/1.0"/>
		<dcterms:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.sony.net/e-book/prs/datatype/newspaper"/>
		<dcterms:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.sony.net/e-book/prs/datatype/periodical"/>
	</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Thats from exploding the dilbert epub, it has to be a calibre error..

[kovidgoyal]

Now that, unlike what you pointed to in the first post, is an actual bug.

[Phoul]

My apologies, When i found the first date "mismatch" in my head i just assumed that was the problem. Not even thinking that maybe that was supposed to be GMT. I should have posted them both. Its a great product, I just get confused with the metadata stuff sometimes.

[kovidgoyal]

No worries, I've already committed the fix.

[Phoul]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No worries, I've already committed the fix.

Awesome!

[Phoul]

I have no idea why now but its still coming up under sony readers as the day in the future.

[Phoul]

under atom.xml theres this:

<title>Lifehacker</title>
<updated>2010-12-10T19:45:06Z</updated>
<id>e357dd16-19ec-4ad8-9896-b203fbf3de04</id>

but under content.opf theres:

<dc:title>Lifehacker [Fri, 10 Dec 2010]</dc:title>
<meta name="cover" content="id169"/>
<dc:date>2010-12-11T01:44:58.139103+00:00</dc:date>

Could that have anything to do with it? I cant find anything else relative to date inside the epubs..

[Phoul]

if i sync early on in the day (Perhaps before its officially the next day in GMT?) i get the correct date, it seems to be days i wait until late like today to fetch the news it shows up as the day after. (Late being like 8pm)

I noticed this as well when i attempt to remove the books from today: http://imagebin.org/127359

the image is a screenshot showing the "date" of the removals and conky in the bottom left shows the current time and date.

[kovidgoyal]

set the date and timezone correctly on your reader.

[Phoul]

it is =\ 12-10-2010 21:18