update date in populate_article_metadata?

[ireadtheinternet]

Why does this work:

    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
        article.title='Hello'

but this doesn't work:

    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
        article.date = '1/25/2014'

Or do you think it is something I am doing wrong elsewhere in the recipe?

[kovidgoyal]

You dont pass in a string date, you pass in a parsed time struct.

Use

import time
article.date = time.strftime(...)

EDIT: And IIRC to change the actual displayed date, you set formatted_date, not date (date is used internally to expire old articles and so on). And formatted date accepts a unicode string.

[ireadtheinternet]

Ah, thanks -- that will help a lot.