RSS Feed publication dates are backwards

dalewking · Post by **dalewking** » September 1st, 2010, 6:10 am

The publication dates for chapters in the RSS feeds for books are backwards in that the first chapter has a publication time of 1 second after the second chapter and so forth. If you sort the items by publication date in the RSS feed you get them in reverse order.

Some podcatchers (doggcatcher for Android in my case) make use of the publication date for ordering items in the feed.

This should really be fixed so that the publication date is in the same order as the chapters.

peegee · Post by **peegee** » September 1st, 2010, 7:46 am

It's probably that way because iTunes displays and plays podcasts starting from the most recent first and working backwards, so it makes sense for chapter 1 to appear to be the most recent.

tis · Post by **tis** » September 4th, 2010, 5:36 am

Yeah, peegee is correct: the most common feedreaders display feeds most recent first; that's the rationale for the reverse ordering.