Okay thanks for the clarification. I think what I need to be able to do is to force the entry updated field somehow on create.
This way my old entries don't get new looking "updates" when they're added in. Short term I can probably change the template but then that breaks my ability to genuinely update stuff. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, sometimes it's better to insert blog articles concerning off-topic > items with old dates to help Googlers while keeping the subject material on > the blog's front page the same. If we can make it so the Atom feed doesn't > give the appearance that anything has recently changed when someone adds a > blog article with a date 6 months ago that would be good IMO. Since Roller > already allows pre-dating of new blog articles, the Atom and RSS feeds > should be consistent with that if possible. > > Glen > > > On 05/26/2013 11:02 PM, Dave wrote: >> >> The <feed> level <update> element reflects the last time that the Weblog >> itself was updated. Here's the template: >> >> >> <updated>$utils.formatIso8601Date($model.weblog.lastModified)</updated> >> >> I can't remember why we decided to do that and I'm not sure that is really >> what we want. Might be better to use the last entry publish time there, or >> the last comment post-time, depending on what type of feed it is. >> >> - Dave >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Which Pub Time do you mean? Do you mean the feed-level <update> element >>> or >>> the <entry> element's <update>? >>> >>> I think <update> is a required field in Atom and my feed (running a post >>> 5.0 dev build) validates: >>> >>> >>> http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Frollerweblogger.org%2Froller%2Ffeed%2Fentries%2Fatom >>> >>> - Dave >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:49 PM, matthew sporleder >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I specific a Pub Time for an entry in the past as I am back-filling my >>>> blog with some old stuff. >>>> >>>> The regular page and rss feeds look fine and show the date I entered >>>> but the atom feed is showing today's date. >>>> >>>> Is this something I can configure, or a bug? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Matt >>>> >>> >
