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[PATCH 4/4] gitweb: rss channel date

From
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2009, 04:48 UTC
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The RSS 2.0 specifications defines not one but _two_ dates for its channel element! Woohoo! Luckily, it seems that consensus seems to be that if both are present they should be equal, except for some very obscure and discouraged cases. Since lastBuildDate would make more sense for us and pubDate seems to be the most commonly used, we defined both and make them equal.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index cc6d0fb..756868a 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -6087,6 +6087,10 @@ XML
 			      "<link>$alt_url</link>\n" .
 			      "</image>\n";
 		}
+		if (%latest_date) {
+			print "<pubDate>$latest_date{'rfc2822'}</pubDate>\n";
+			print "<lastBuildDate>$latest_date{'rfc2822'}</lastBuildDate>\n";
+		}
 		print "<generator>gitweb v.$version/$git_version</generator>\n";
 	} elsif ($format eq 'atom') {
 		print <<XML;
-- 
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