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TJM · 05-02-2006, 03:41 PM

I've been a begrudging user of Avantgo because they've successfully kept the palm-formatted content of my local paper (Minneapolis Star Tribune) to themselves.

Now, I see that the Star Tribune has an RSS feed that I can get with Sunrise/Plucker. But I am getting an error when I try to run Sunrise on this feed. Here is the error message from the report file:

error: Cannot convert dates prior to Jan 1, 1970

The RSS URL is: http://www.startribune.com/rss/462.xml

I see in the xml file that date fields look like this:
<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 15:30:25 -0400</pubDate>

Whereas in a NY Times xml file, which converts successfully, they look like this:
<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>

Is it possible that the timezone is not being parsed correctly? Or does this have nothing to do with it?

In the Sunrise console, the error message says something about "could not retrieve home resource".

Thanks,
Tom

Oops, forgot to mention: Sunrise v2 beta 9f.

05-02-2006, 03:41 PM	#1
TJM Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2006	Sunrise reports date error I've been a begrudging user of Avantgo because they've successfully kept the palm-formatted content of my local paper (Minneapolis Star Tribune) to themselves. Now, I see that the Star Tribune has an RSS feed that I can get with Sunrise/Plucker. But I am getting an error when I try to run Sunrise on this feed. Here is the error message from the report file: error: Cannot convert dates prior to Jan 1, 1970 The RSS URL is: http://www.startribune.com/rss/462.xml I see in the xml file that date fields look like this: <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 15:30:25 -0400</pubDate> Whereas in a NY Times xml file, which converts successfully, they look like this: <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate> Is it possible that the timezone is not being parsed correctly? Or does this have nothing to do with it? In the Sunrise console, the error message says something about "could not retrieve home resource". Thanks, Tom Oops, forgot to mention: Sunrise v2 beta 9f. Last edited by TJM; 05-02-2006 at 03:43 PM.