# Date parsing problem with feed

**URL:** <https://forum.newsblur.com/t/date-parsing-problem-with-feed/6385>\
**Category:** problem\
**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/date-parsing-problem-with-feed/6385 "2017-01-23T16:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndyHat](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@AndyHat](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/AndyHat)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/date-parsing-problem-with-feed/6385/1 "2017-01-23T16:31:00Z")

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I’m having problems with the feed from&nbsp;[http://www.sixthtone.com/rss/index.xml](http://www.sixthtone.com/rss/index.xml "Link: http://www.sixthtone.com/rss/index.xml")&nbsp;at&nbsp;[http://www.newsblur.com/site/6275737/sixth-tone-rss](http://www.newsblur.com/site/6275737/sixth-tone-rss "Link: http://www.newsblur.com/site/6275737/sixth-tone-rss")

Every story on the feed is showing up as having been published on December 31, 2016 at 7pm. I’m guessing the problem is that they’re using a non-standard date format in their RSS feed, e.g.“2017 Jan 23”

Is there any chance that Newsblur can parse that date correctly, or should I try contacting the site to get them to change to a standard timestamp format in their feed?

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**Author:** ![samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/samuelclay/32/857_2.png) [@samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/samuelclay)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/date-parsing-problem-with-feed/6385/2 "2017-01-24T01:34:00Z")

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You should talk to the publisher. NewsBlur already tries to parse the date using human readable strings. It’s pretty lenient, but in this case that’s just an unrecognized date.