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Incorrect Date on blog
The date for the posts in the blog outliner in Drummer is displayed correctly. However, when the blog is built, it is shown as a day older.
Here is the opml file. And the blog url is this. It shows the date as Monday, October 11, 2021 while all the posts are created on October 12th.
The date on the blog continues to be a day old. I wish there was a way to better understand what's going wrong -- not sure where to start looking. I suspect it possibly has something to do with the timezone. Possibly. Is there no one else who sees the issue, though?
I’m sure it is the time zone thing. What time zone are you in?
I am in Indian Standard Time (IST) - UTC+5:30
Just to confirm, I posted just past midnight German time, and I see it too 
@am1t and @papascott -- I have a test version ready for you to try out.
This stuff is notoriously difficult to test, so this probably will take a few iterations.
I'm going to paste in the draft docs below.
But first this is is what I want you to do.
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Make a few changes in your blog, over a few days, to cause the day pages for rebuild. Not for all of them, just a few.
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Then rebuild.
What happened?
Draft of the docs
Drummer blogs are built on a server that's in the United States' Eastern time zone.
If that's not where you're blogging from, this section is for you.
Suppose you're blogging from Indian Standard Time, which is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT.
Add a new head-level attribute called timeZoneOffset with the value +5:30.
Then rebuild your blog.
Other values for timeZoneOffset:
- Vancouver -8
- Barbados -4
- London +0
- Accra +0
- Berlin +1
- Rome +1
- Vilnius +2
- Moscow +3
- Ho Chi Minh +7
- Shanghai +8
- Honolulu -10
Here's a list of all the time zones.
@scripting I am not sure that I understand what you want me to try. Do you want me to create new posts over the next few days or modify the existing posts? Also, do you want me to set the timeZoneOffset header first before trying out?
@am1t -- modify existing posts. set the timeZoneOffset head att before building.
I can't afford to wait four days for results. I want to get this done now. ;-)
An update on the tests.
- I modified the existing posts across the 3 days. I have posts across October 12, 13 and 14th.
- I added the
timeZoneOffsetto the header. - I rebuilt the blog.
Here's what happened.
- Posts from October 12 and 13 are still shown as a day older (October 11 and 12 respectively).
- Posts from October 14th are shown correctly.
@am1t -- try rebuilding again. no need to change anything. tell me what you see.
@scripting Triggered a rebuild. Nothing's changed -- the posts are still a day older as they were.
I'm following along, but you both are too fast for me! 😄 I am seeing the same results as @am1t
Just did a hard reload and a rebuild, now the date on my test post is correct!
Found a problem, it'll take some time to solve. So we're going to slow down for a bit. ;-)
Observed the same behaviour as @papascott. A hard reload of Drummer followed by a rebuild of the blog seems to have helped. The dates are correct now.
@am1t -- I believe your site is now correct, as far as that goes. the real proof will be when the date rolls over and you publish and it shows up on the 15th, but i think the code is correct. i'm going to publish an update for the oldSchoolBlog package and post a pointer here to the code, so you all can do a code review too.
FWIW setting timeZoneOffset to 0 has sorted out my uk (Scotland) site. Insomniac had caused a few post to have the wrong date. adding the timeZoneOffset and building fixed these. Thanks.
I edited my test post, rebuilt the blog, and I see the correct date. 👍
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@am1t -- I have my clueless newbie site running in your time zone, so I'll be able to check it too.
http://clueless2.lucky.wtf/
Here's the code in oldSchool for this feature.
https://github.com/scripting/oldSchoolBlog/blob/master/oldschool.js#L229
@scripting This will break for timezones like - "UTC-3:30". There are a few locations in Canada from the list in the draft document. Basically, anything with negative offset (-) and a :30.
It appears above that this timeZoneOffset already works. However, using timeZoneOffset +8 does not seem to work for my blog.opml that generates my oldschool blog. I'm not sure what I am missing.
@sabre23t — I was looking at your blog.opml — the names of attributes is case sensitive, that’s why your about tab isn’t working.
http://xmlviewer.scripting.com/?url=%20http://drummer.scripting.com/sabre23t/blog.opml
Thanks @scripting . I've corrected urlAboutOpml (not incorrect urlAboutOPML). Now my About tab works.
However, I can't find what I did wrong with timeZoneOffset +8. All my latest posts including "Corrected urlAboutOpml" are still shown on October 15. I tried after adding "space" to all my posts headlines to force regeneration. My current date/time is Saturday, October 16, 2021 11:40 MYT (+8).