Fetch news - Date format not optimal

[chaot]

Hallo.

Fetch news imports me several times a week a magazine called Warentest.

I see a problem with the dates. Without manual intervention it doesn't list in chronological order due to the date format.


Status quo: [mié, 08 jul 2015] - better would be [2015/07/08], [2015.07.08] or [2015-07-08] - or [20150708], possibilities enough!

150708, that's the way I use dates, but maybe isn't altogether so clear.

Please change this somehow.

Or can I change that somewhere?

[Divingduck]

You can change it to your preferred display format:

calibre User Manual / News / API Documentation for recipes

timefmt = ' [%a, %d %b %Y]'

The format string for the date shown on the first page. By default: Day_Name, Day_Number Month_Name Year

[chaot]

Where I have to insert the new recipe timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d]'


So it doesn't function.

[Divingduck]

works for me.
timefmt = ' [%Y-%b-%d, %a]' (see picture below) and timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d, %a]' too.

Edit: just recognize in your example that there are missing spaces in your code. You need to start at pos. 5

[chaot]

timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d]' at position 5 → don't function!?



Trying a lot of different figurations, all negativ.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by chaot

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timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d]' at position 5 → don't function!?


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Trying a lot of different figurations, all negativ.

It works fine for me.

Using this recipe (the custom one, not the original one):

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Warentest(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'Warentest'
    language = 'de'
    timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d]'
    description = 'Stiftung Warentest is a German consumer organisation and foundation involved in investigating and comparing goods and services in an unbiased way'
    __author__ = 'asdfdsfksd'
    needs_subscription = False
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup = True

    feeds = [(u'Test', u'http://www.test.de/rss/alles/')]

    def get_cover_url(self):
        return 'http://www.test.de/img/pp/logo.png'

I see the followiong in my library


Be sure you run the customized recipe, not the standard one.

[chaot]

Originally Posted by chaley

It works fine for me.
[...]
Be sure you run the customized recipe, not the standard one.

You are a lucky one!

Using your recipe for me it doesn't work. Maybe I don't run the customized recipe!? But I think I do. Please have a look.


Clicking Show recipe files shows me Warentest_1002.recipe

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Warentest(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'Warentest'
language = 'de'
timefmt = ' [%Y-%m-%d]'
description = 'Stiftung Warentest is a German consumer organisation and foundation involved in investigating and comparing goods and services in an unbiased way'
__author__ = 'asdfdsfksd'
needs_subscription = False
max_articles_per_feed = 100
auto_cleanup = True

feeds = [(u'Test', u'http://www.test.de/rss/alles/')]

def get_cover_url(self):
return 'http://www.test.de/img/pp/logo.png'


My view!

[chaley]

I run the recipe using the gui, as shown in the following.

[chaot]

Now I am also a lucky one!

For completeness, the possibility is mentioned downloading both date formats, if so wanted. One must then activate both, e.g. cross each Schedule for download.

Respectively, crossing only ones Schedule for download is the intended procedure to suppress the unwanted date format. Fine!