Rome and Yahoo Finance

[joachimm]

Hi,

I'm having problems with Yahoo Finance's RSS feeds.  They return a pubDate with an "Etc/GMT" timezone:

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:24 Etc/GMT

I've figured out how to add an extra datetime mask to rome.properties:

datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z

and this handles "Etc/GMT".

But this does not handle timezones with offsets, e.g. "Etc/GMT-04:00".  I cannot figure out what, if any SDF can be used to parse this format.

Has anyone figured this out?  Is there a way that I can insert some custom parsing code?

Thanks --Joachim

[James Abley]

2009/7/1 joachimm <joachimm@...>:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with Yahoo Finance's RSS feeds.  They return a pubDate
> with an "Etc/GMT" timezone:
>
> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:24 Etc/GMT
>
> I've figured out how to add an extra datetime mask to rome.properties:
>
> datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z
>
> and this handles "Etc/GMT".
>
> But this does not handle timezones with offsets, e.g. "Etc/GMT-04:00".  I
> cannot figure out what, if any SDF can be used to parse this format.
>
> Has anyone figured this out?  Is there a way that I can insert some custom
> parsing code?
>
> Thanks --Joachim
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That doesn't sound right to me [1]. What does feedvalidator [2] think
of them? (and for Firefox Users [3])

Cheers,

James

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#section-5
[2] http://www.feedvalidator.org/
[3] http://www.feedvalidator.org/register.html

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[joachimm]

The feed is not valid (and feedvalidator.org agrees), but we still need to let our users add it.

James Abley wrote:

2009/7/1 joachimm <[e-mail]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with Yahoo Finance's RSS feeds.  They return a pubDate
> with an "Etc/GMT" timezone:
>
> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:24 Etc/GMT
>
> I've figured out how to add an extra datetime mask to rome.properties:
>
> datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z
>
> and this handles "Etc/GMT".
>
> But this does not handle timezones with offsets, e.g. "Etc/GMT-04:00".  I
> cannot figure out what, if any SDF can be used to parse this format.
>
> Has anyone figured this out?  Is there a way that I can insert some custom
> parsing code?
>
> Thanks --Joachim
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rome-and-Yahoo-Finance-tp24293626p24293626.html
> Sent from the Rome - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
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That doesn't sound right to me [1]. What does feedvalidator [2] think
of them? (and for Firefox Users [3])

Cheers,

James

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822#section-5
[2] http://www.feedvalidator.org/
[3] http://www.feedvalidator.org/register.html

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[James Abley]

2009/7/1 joachimm <joachimm@...>:
>
> The feed is not valid (and feedvalidator.org agrees), but we still need to
> let our users add it.
>
>

I've reported it as a bug to Yahoo!; I'll let you know if I hear
anything back. I can't help with any workaround, sorry.

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[Martin Kurz]

Hi Joachim,

it's very strange, but when using to pattern you tried below wird
SimpleDateFormat, I can parse the Datestring with and without time
offset. (OK, I had to explicitely set Locale.US on SimpleDateFormat for
parsing the english Wed instead of my system defaults german locale).
Changing the offset also changes the parsed time. Are you getting any
exception when trying the pattern you described?

Greetings,

martin

joachimm schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with Yahoo Finance's RSS feeds.  They return a pubDate
> with an "Etc/GMT" timezone:
>
> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:24 Etc/GMT
>
> I've figured out how to add an extra datetime mask to rome.properties:
>
> datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z
>
> and this handles "Etc/GMT".
>
> But this does not handle timezones with offsets, e.g. "Etc/GMT-04:00".  I
> cannot figure out what, if any SDF can be used to parse this format.
>
> Has anyone figured this out?  Is there a way that I can insert some custom
> parsing code?
>
> Thanks --Joachim

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[joachimm]

I apologize- I think I had a trailing space in my SDF pattern that was causing the unparseable date exception.  Same for the rome.properties because I added that file back in to the distribution and I'm now getting (correct) datetimes for yahoo finance.

So adding

datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z

to a rome.properties in the classpath gets pubDates for these yahoo finance feeds.

Sorry about the confusion, and thanks for the follow up, it caused me to re-evaluate my work.

--Joachim

Martin Kurz wrote:

Hi Joachim,

it's very strange, but when using to pattern you tried below wird
SimpleDateFormat, I can parse the Datestring with and without time
offset. (OK, I had to explicitely set Locale.US on SimpleDateFormat for
parsing the english Wed instead of my system defaults german locale).
Changing the offset also changes the parsed time. Are you getting any
exception when trying the pattern you described?

Greetings,

martin

joachimm schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with Yahoo Finance's RSS feeds.  They return a pubDate
> with an "Etc/GMT" timezone:
>
> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:21:24 Etc/GMT
>
> I've figured out how to add an extra datetime mask to rome.properties:
>
> datetime.extra.masks=EEE, dd MMM yy HH:mm:ss 'Etc/'z
>
> and this handles "Etc/GMT".
>
> But this does not handle timezones with offsets, e.g. "Etc/GMT-04:00".  I
> cannot figure out what, if any SDF can be used to parse this format.
>
> Has anyone figured this out?  Is there a way that I can insert some custom
> parsing code?
>
> Thanks --Joachim

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