Can someone give me an example of a properly formatted RFC-822 time/date?

I'm trying to format the pubdate field of an RSS feed, and it's the only thing I can't seem to get validated. Reading this is just making my eyes cross.

My items look like this:

<item>
 <title>Barefoot updates for 12th of May, 2005</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 18:00:02 PDT</pubDate>
 <link><![CDATA[http://barefoot.provocateuse.com/daily.php?date=20050512&stamp=180002]]></link>
 <description>Barefoot and fancy free (1 new): elijah wood</description>
 <author>barefoot@provocateuse.com</author>
 </item>

using:

$pubdate = date("D, d M Y H:i:s T", $now);

I could swear that's what I have now, but I'll copy-paste and try again.

(Huh...now it's validating, but I still don't see any items when I try to subscribe on Bloglines. Thunderbird claims to be downloading 4, but only shows me 1.)

Guess I'll fiddle some more tomorrow when my brain wakes up.

Windows Media Player question - it won't play any streaming media content from the internet. I can play files off of my computer or the other computer on the network, but nothing off the internet.

• I've turned the firewall off
• I've attempted to change my internet security settings to "Low" but they keep re-setting to "Medium."
• The sites providing the streaming media correctly identify my player as Windows Media Player v.10, and say there's no problem.

Without the firewall on, I shouldn't have to define ports, right? Could it be a codecs thing? Or a conflict with Service Pack 2 (as so much is)?

The computer came with McAfee Security Center loaded, which I tried to eradicate from every nook and cranny of my system as it was preventing me from being networked, but is it possible there's still a remnant of it somewhere that's blocking WMP? I went through the registery pretty thoroughly.

Actually, the date-time format was updated in RFC 2822, and the syntax that ita is using is obsolete. The actual format is:

Fri, 13 May 2005 05:23:00 -0700

The time zone should be a numeric offset from GMT, so EDT is -0400, EST is -0500, and PDT is -0700.

The day of the week in the beginning is optional. The time is 24-hour time, and the hours, minutes and seconds should all be 2 digits, with leading zeros. The seconds are optional.

The time zone should be a numeric offset from GMT, so EDT is -0400, EST is -0500, and PDT is -0700.

Thanks Tom, I'll update that.

Thanks for the heads up, Tom.

I need to set up my Mac Mail so it'll send a message to anyone who writes to my Earthlink account telling them that account is about to be closed and directing them to my Mac account, but I can't figure out how to do this seemingly simple thing. Does anyone have a clue?

Azureus on the mac keeps telling me:

Distributed DB] If you have a router/firewall, please check that you have port 6681 UDP open. Decentralised tracking requires this.

Unfortunately, I haven't the faintest idea what to do about it.

FWiw, I use an Apple Extreme Card that talks to an SMC Barricade wifi router that I think is the "g" variant of whatever.

Even a clue where to start woudl be gratefully accepted.

Rio, you should be able to access the web version of your EarthLink mail account, and in Preferences use both the "Email Forwarding" and "Vacation Message" features.

Of course, I doubt either of those will features will survive the actual closing of your account, but it will alert anyone who sends to you between now and then.

Is that what you had in mind?