Title: RSS Import post date error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS Import post date error

 *  [matteoca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matteoca/)
 * (@matteoca)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-post-date-error/)
 * Hi, I’m trying to import posts from Thingamablog ([http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/](http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/))
   into WordPress 2.1. I used the RSS import tool and all posts imported in WordPress
   have the date “January the 1th 1970”. I think that the pubDate in the Thingamablog
   xml export file was not recognised by the WordPress RSS Import script.
    This 
   an example of my Thingamablog export file:
 * <category>Linux</category>
    <category>Software</category> <pubDate>lun, 11 ott
   2004 21:33:17 GMT</pubDate> matteo campofiorito <dc:creator>matteo</dc:creator
   > <dc:subject>Linux</dc:subject> <dc:subject>Software</dc:subject> <dc:date>2004-
   10-11T21:33:17Z</dc:date>
 * What changes I have to do on my xml to import a correct date in WordPress posts?
   
   I hope you can help me 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [matteoca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matteoca/)
 * (@matteoca)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-import-post-date-error/#post-519846)
 * I resolved importing error first examining the rss.php import script and the 
   format used in WordPress to store post date in MySQL.
    Then I used in this workaround:
 * 1) I used Find and Replace in a text editor to replace every <pubDate> and </
   pubdate> entry in the Thingamablog’s xml export file with “*”
    2) I used Find
   and Replace to change every <dc:date> and </dc:date> entry into <pubDate> </pubDate
   >
 * 3) Finally I used the Import RSS tool in WordPress to load the modified xml export
   file
 * All posts, category and post’s date are correct now!
    Bye Matteo

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