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How to format the output of [*pub_date*]?

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    andrew.abogado Reply #11, 16 years, 8 months ago
    Quote from: tkfm at Apr 16, 2008, 12:37 PM

    Use non-cached form [!...!].

    I’m finding a fix on 1969 issue. smiley
    Glad that the non-cache syntax did the trick. It helped a lot.

    Thank you tkfm


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      vr_driver Reply #12, 16 years, 7 months ago
      I just wanted to THANKYOU I have been searching for the last 2 hours looking for a solution. I think this should be in the FAQs...
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        insightdesign Reply #13, 15 years, 11 months ago
        The pub_date placeholder always gives me problems and I never remember the solution!

        Good thing for posts like this! The DateTime snippet works perfectly. I used mine in a ditto call. Mine looks like this if I want to display the published date of each resource:

        [[DateTime? &format=`%B %d, %Y` &timestamp=`[+pub_date+]`]]
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          islander Reply #14, 15 years, 10 months ago
          This is truly a life saver.

          I actually had to use two calls.
          In the summary chunk I used:
          [[DateTime? &format=`%B %d, %Y` &timestamp=`[+pub_date+]`]]


          And then in the template I used:
          [[DateTime? &format=`%B %d, %Y` &timestamp=`[*pub_date*]`]]


          Works like a charm, and saved me from going crazy tongue
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            kudykam Reply #15, 15 years, 6 months ago
            Does it works fro FeedX snippet as well?
            I am trying to convert date from RSS to usual format readable for human.
            [[DateTime? &format=`%B %d, %Y` &timestamp=`[+PUBDATE+]`]]

            returns only 1.st January 1970
            If I use uncachced [!...!] it doesnt work at all....

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              Mark Hamstra Reply #16, 15 years, 6 months ago
              That depends on how FeedX is giving you the value in the [+pubdate+] placeholder. What does it output when you just include the placeholder on itself?
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                kudykam Reply #17, 15 years, 4 months ago
                Quote from: Mark at Mar 04, 2011, 07:36 AM

                That depends on how FeedX is giving you the value in the [+pubdate+] placeholder. What does it output when you just include the placeholder on itself?

                It gets date from rss in default format:
                Mon, 16 May 2011 09:03:02 +0000