On tuesday, april 30, 2002, at 02:19 , tsaiello wrote:
> It seems to me that in RSS 0.93 there are a couple optional dates.
> Namely pubDate and expirationDate. However, I'm not sure exactly
> what the definition really means at it is a bit misleading to me.
> From RSS 0.93:
>
> <pubDate> is an optional sub-element of <item>.

Ah, how could I miss that!? :-)

> Its value is a date, indicating when the item will become available.
>
> Perhaps one could take this to mean a date when the item will (or
> has) become available.

I certainly would use that date when displaying weblog entries.

Another, somewhat related question: why represent time using the
long deprecated RFC822 date format?

BTW: I couldn't follow the link to Simon Fell's use-case and
discussion on the pubDate and expirationDate. Yahoo tells me
there's no message #15.

Cheerio,
Malte