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Why are the timestamps in Twitter RSS feeds listed in GMT?
Preface: my computer's timezone, and my Twitter account's timezone, are both set to GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Time). I just posted a tweet.
* On twitter.com, this tweet shows up with the correct timestamp - 8:59am.
* On my twitter RSS feed, however, the timestamp for this same exact tweet is 1:59pm (to be more exact, Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:59:31 +0000).
Despite my timezone setting being correct, my Twitter RSS feed seems to have time stamps in GMT+0 -which is inconvenient, since I pull my twitter RSS feed into a blog and my tweets sit on top of all my actual posts for quite a while due to these incorrect timestamps.
* On twitter.com, this tweet shows up with the correct timestamp - 8:59am.
* On my twitter RSS feed, however, the timestamp for this same exact tweet is 1:59pm (to be more exact, Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:59:31 +0000).
Despite my timezone setting being correct, my Twitter RSS feed seems to have time stamps in GMT+0 -which is inconvenient, since I pull my twitter RSS feed into a blog and my tweets sit on top of all my actual posts for quite a while due to these incorrect timestamps.
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Sorry about the confusion about the timezone. This is a bug that we're working on. We will let you know once we get this bug fixed.
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Inappropriate?Sorry about the confusion about the timezone. This is a bug that we're working on. We will let you know once we get this bug fixed.
I’m hopeful it'll be done soon
The company and 2 other people say
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?hey is this why my SMS timestamps are behind 8 hours? (I'm in GMT minus 8)
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?has this been fixed yet? i just posted a tweet and it is 1am and says i posted it at 6am in the RSS feed.
I’m anxious
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Inappropriate?This is totally messing up my twitter+wordpress integration.
I’m sad this hasn't been fixed yet
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Inappropriate?Maybe this'll help someone...
While looping through the XML with PHP5 you can correct the time yourself using the DateTime object:
$dt = new DateTime($status->created_at);
$dt->modify("-7 hours");
echo $dt->format('D'),', ',$dt->format('F'), ' ',
$dt->format('j'),', ',$dt->format('Y'),' @ ',
$dt->format('G'),':',$dt->format('i');
I’m glad I switched to PHP5!
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Inappropriate?Or in Python:
datetime.fromtimestamp(status.created_at_in_seconds) + timedelta(hours=2)
I’m glad I switched from PHP5
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