Title: Incorrect pubdate format
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Incorrect pubdate format

 *  Resolved [Turskis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turskis/)
 * (@turskis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/)
 * Hi. I was wondering why one of my imported feeds does not get date value, and
   that of course causes problems in sorting the posts.
 * W3C feed validator says for that RSS:
 * > pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:42:59 EET
 * Could that be the problem? Is there any hack for making that kind of pubdate 
   to work?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647623)
 * I’m not sure…what is the RSS feed where this is happening?
 *  Thread Starter [Turskis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turskis/)
 * (@turskis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647698)
 * [http://www.imperiumi.net/rss/Uutiset.rss](http://www.imperiumi.net/rss/Uutiset.rss)
 * I’ve got nothing to do with feed itself
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647707)
 * the problem with that feed is that the items do not have a pubdate tag, so that
   is why the date isn’t being handled (there is no date to handle)
 *  Thread Starter [Turskis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turskis/)
 * (@turskis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647720)
 * Oh yes, true. <pubDate> seems to be only before first item. Maybe it could be
   possible to fetch the date from the title tag of the item
 * `<title><![CDATA[26.02.2014...`
 * But then all other feeds won’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [Turskis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turskis/)
 * (@turskis)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647725)
 * Or..does anybody know how to edit external rss feeds? In this case adding pubDate
   value to every item from the title.
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647743)
 * that is not possible…yo need to ask the feed source to make the feed items correct
   by putting in a pubdate….the pubdate at the top cannot be used in my plugin as
   the pubdate for each item.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-pubdate-format/#post-4647743)
 * Status: resolved