possible issue with corelib parsing item20 pubDate

[Jay]

The error is from corelib parsing a pubDate variable. I get the below
error when trying the below two lines of code:

var day:Date = item.pubDate; // item is an Item20
var dayStr:String = day.toDateString(); // toString is not working
either

Error: Unable to parse the string [2/5/2008 10:41:56 AM] into a date.
The internal error was: TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined
and has no properties.
at com.adobe.utils::DateUtil$/parseRFC822()[C:\Development
\ContractProjects\Adobe\as3corelib\src\com\adobe\utils\DateUtil.as:
460]
at com.adobe.xml.syndication::ParsingTools$/dateCheck()[C:\Documents
and Settings\mchamber\My Documents\src\flashplatform\projects
\xmlsyndication\trunk\src\actionscript3\com\adobe\xml\syndication
\ParsingTools.as:116]
at com.adobe.xml.syndication.rss::Item20/get pubDate()[C:\Documents
and Settings\mchamber\My Documents\src\flashplatform\projects
\xmlsyndication\trunk\src\actionscript3\com\adobe\xml\syndication\rss
\Item20.as:161]
at NGService/parseRSS()[C:\Documents and Settings\guolong.li\workspace
\NGService\NGService.mxml:87]
at NGService/onDataLoad()[C:\Documents and Settings\guolong.li
\workspace\NGService\NGService.mxml:55]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

[Mike Chambers]

Can you post the date you are trying to parse (i.e. the data in the
RSS feed)?

Thanks...

mike chambers

me...@adobe.com

[Guolong Li]

Sorry Mike for my late response. Turns out it is the feed I am trying to parse happen to have a non-RSS 2.0 pubDate (url is "http://www.newsgator.com/MySyndicationRSS.aspx?uid=254827&fid=391189". It is having a string "2/8/2008 1:21:56 PM" rather than a Date object like "Fri Feb 8 2008". Not sure what we should do. Should the library be more tolerant since it is hard to enforce standard and hard to tell a retrieved feed is which version?
Thanks
Guolong

[Mike Chambers]

Yeah. Christian has made some fixes so it at least wont throw an
exception (although it won't be able to parse dates that dont confirm
to the spec).

mike chambers

me...@adobe.com