2.2 XML-RPC Post Reports Incorrect/Malformed Time

[iacas]

WordPress 2.2 reports the incorrect time - and perhaps a malformed time - when a desktop application requests the information. This occurs both when posting a single article (a desktop app will then refresh that individual listing) and when refreshing all entries.

This may be related to issue 4158, but I can't be sure.
​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4158

I've verified this issue on several servers and with a clean install of WordPress 2.2., as well as with at least two (ecto, MarsEdit) desktop app blog editors.

[iacas]

Originally reported (by me) here: ​http://nslog.com/2007/05/22/wordpress_22_reporting_incorrect_time

[redsweater]

This strikes me as a pretty critical issue, since it changes behavior that desktop apps have relied upon for a long time.

May I suggest reverting to 2.1.3 format dates until a more thorough survey of what desktop applications actually expect is conducted? It will at least fix things for my app (MarsEdit) and Ecto, and probably other desktop apps whose users have not yet discovered the bug.

Daniel

[foolswisdom]

iacas, the versions of ecto, MarsEdit may also be relevant. ?

[iacas]

I don't believe the versions are relevant. It fails on several versions of MarsEdit and the latest version of ecto. It had been working correctly prior to WordPress 2.2 on both.

I did discover that if the strings "Ymd\TH:i:s" are changed to "Ymd\TH:i:s\Z" in xmlrpc.php, the date is correctly reported and displayed in blog editors. I don't consider that any more than a temporary band-aid.

[foolswisdom]

Replying to iacas:

I don't believe the versions are relevant.

As I am sure you know, the various components is almost always relevant if someone has to look at a problem months later.

Noting: Latest version of Ecto is 2.3.1 and MarsEdit is 1.1.8 .

[josephscott]

I've uploaded a patch to add the trailing Z for returning date/time data.

[rob1n]

Looks good.

[markjaquith]

(In [5513]) explicitly state Zulu time for desktop editors. Props Erik Barzeski and Joseph Scott. fixes #4314 for trunk

[markjaquith]

(In [5514]) explicitly state Zulu time for desktop editors. Props Erik Barzeski and Joseph Scott. fixes #4314 for trunk

[markjaquith]

[5514] was for 2.2.x, not trunk (chalk that up to hyper-up-return-itis).

[markjaquith]

(In [5888]) Send dateCreated as local blog time, add date_created_gmt with GMT value. Props josephscott. fixes #4624. refs #4158, #4314