Wrong date in itunes podcast

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Wrong date in itunes podcast

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I have a podcast called "research in leadership in schools, early childhood setings and social care settings". When I look at the podcast in itunes on my computer and on itunes pocast store on my iphone the date is right. But when I download episodes on my iphone they get the date 01-01-2001. When I download other podcasts the date is right.

How can I correct this? (myabe if someone can download episodes on their iphone you can check if the same thing happens on your phone)

Posted on Apr 20, 2016 11:22 AM

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May 2, 2016 7:25 PM in response to midskard

We had a similar problem. Turns out our timezone value in our date elements weren't interpreted by the podcast app correctly (elements like <pubDate>).

For example we had:

<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 09:30:00 AEST</pubDate>

Which displayed fine on the iTunes website page for our podcast, but not in the podcast app. Technically this is within the required RFC 822 specifications for the date format, but just doesn't seem to work.

We changed it to: (note the timezone change)

<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 09:30:00 +1000</pubDate>

and it worked (refresh feed and restart podcast app).

This formatting will apply to all dates in your feed. The timezone might not be the problem on yours, but the format might be slightly off. So double check there are no double spaces, preceding spaces or trailing spaces.

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