RhodeCode CE/EE

So the problem is the timezone difference, but something is wrong with all those settings because I can't get it to ever display a matching datetime, always displaying two hours of difference.

My local machine and my VM are in timezone Berlin, when displaying the datetime on Firefox feed, the dates are different as Firefox somehow tries to set a Timezone for the given date. The attached image explains the problem.

The code on the other hand have matching datetime and a Military style timezone description, which I believe is the root of the problem.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/#z28

I couldn't find anything on how to set the pubdate format of the feed classes Atom1Feed/Rss201rev2Feed.

A snippet from the feed source is:


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2015-09-08T11:51:58Z
2015-09-08T11:51:58Z
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tag:172.16.115.152:5000,2015-09-08:/git-break-me/changeset/70a84438c293bb159679ced2ee4c199e7937a52aadmin (RhodeCode Admin) committed on Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:51:58<br/>branch: master<br/>changeset: <a href="http://172.16.115.152:5000/git-break-me/changeset/70a84438c293bb159679ced2ee4c199e7937a52a">70a84438</a><pre>Edited file new via RhodeCode Enterprise
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So as you can see, our webhelper feed generates the date format as:

@2015-09-08T11:51:58Z@

Supposedly feedgenerator has a function @ rfc2822_date@ but it doesn't explain how to use it with the generator class itself.

http://sluggo.scrapping.cc/python/WebHelpers/modules/feedgenerator.html

I fixed it by forcing a local timezone

localtz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Berlin')
feed.add_item(title=h.shorter(commit.message, 160),
link=url('changeset_home', repo_name=repo_name,
revision=commit.raw_id, qualified=True),
author_name=commit.author,
description=''.join(self.__get_desc(commit)),
pubdate=localtz.localize(commit.date),
)

then it will display matching datetimes as the screenshot shows.

Also, adding to the conversation Marcin gave a link to an old bitbucket issue regarding the problem:

https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/issues/629/rss-feed-of-the-journal-reports-incorrect

Conclusion was to add timezone info to that date.

Just a technical note:

Trying to use pytz automatic localization didn't seem to do the trick. Using the code below it was still displaying GMT-0 instead of my VM timezone.

pubdate=pytz.utc.localize(commit.date)

So I guess the biggest issue here is how to identify which timezone Rhodecode has.

Created a follow up ticket #2641 to implement the fix