com.colorfulsoftware.rss

Class PubDate

java.lang.Object

com.colorfulsoftware.rss.PubDate

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class PubDate
extends Object
implements Serializable

The <pubDate> element.

From the RSS 2.0 specification...

For Channel: The publication date for the content in the channel. For example, the New York Times publishes on a daily basis, the publication date flips once every 24 hours. That's when the pubDate of the channel changes. All date-times in RSS conform to the Date and Time Specification of RFC 822, with the exception that the year may be expressed with two characters or four characters (four preferred).

For Item: Indicates when the item was published. More.

<pubDate> is an optional sub-element of <item>.

Its value is a date, indicating when the item was published. If it's a date in the future, aggregators may choose to not display the item until that date.

<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2002 15:21:36 GMT</pubDate>

Author:

Bill Brown

See Also:

Serialized Form

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(Object obj)
Date	getDateTime()
String	getText()
int	hashCode()
String	toString() Shows the contents of the <pubDate> element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getDateTime

public Date getDateTime()

Returns:

the date timestamp for this element.

getText

public String getText()

Returns:

the string formated version of the time for example 2006-04-28T12:50:43.337-05:00

toString

public String toString()

Shows the contents of the <pubDate> element.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object