[TxMt] Blogging Bundle / dateCreated

[Allan Odgaard]

On 23. Mar 2007, at 18:33, Philip Hofstetter wrote:

> [...]
> dateCreated is supposed to be passed around as dateTime.iso8601  
> which in turn is defined as  
> <year><month><day>T<hour>:<minute>:<second> (time in GMT). This is  
> what s9y uses and this is what the rest of the world uses.
>
> Except MT, that is.
> [...]
> The blogging bundle defaults to the mt-mode and tries to recreate  
> this flawed format (parse_post in blogging.rb - I wonder what the  
> other T at the end does though) which in turn causes s9y to fail to  
> parse the date correctly and set the time stamp to 0 (which isn't  
> right thing to do, but I'll report that to their forum).

Brad, would it be okay if we changed the default away from MT, given  
this problem?

> [...]
> So I created the attached patch bb_s9ydate.diff, which adds a  
> proper s9y mode which basically means it makes blogging.rb use the  
> default date handling, but still provide the comment-toggling  
> features.

Thanks for your work, before I apply it, I just want to be sure that  
we are going in the proper direction.

Having to define a mode for each blogging system out there, and then  
per mode decide what to send in the POST, is that necessary? i.e.  
what happens if we always send mt_allow_comments and mt_allow_pings,  
will some blogging systems fails?