Blogger.com Users: Check Your Post’s Time Stamp

If you are using Blogger.com, you may want to check the time stamp of your post shown in your blog and the one appeared on Pfblog.org. As it happened to me before, I saw the difference between these two greater than any reasonable level. The direct result was that no matter when I posted the entry, it always showed on Pfblog with an earlier time and the entry was pushed back into their entry list and never had a chance to appear on the front page. If this also happened to you, there are probably a couple of things causing that:

1. Your time zone. Pfblog uses Eastern time and depending on your time zone, the difference could be 1, 2, or 3 hours. However, when a post appears on Pfblog, the time is converted to Eastern time.
2. Pfblog fetches some 700 blogs every 30 minutes and processes all the feeds. The whole process takes about 20 minutes, but this time is not added to the time the entry is originally posted. Pfblog displayes uses the entry’s publish time (the time stamp on the entry’s Atom/RSS feed) to sort entries on Pfblog.
3. If for some reason a feed is not reachable, it’s appearance on Pfblog will be delayed but the time stamp on Pfblog will not be affected by the delay.
4. It seems that Blogger.com’s Atom feed implementation caused all these problems. I was informed by Pfblog that they mannually switched me from Atom feed to RSS feed and after the switch, there is no discrepancy between the two time stamps. So you may want to check your feed.

The above items were summarized from emails I received from Pfblog. In addition, Pblog also told me that they adjusted their software to address Blogger’s improper Atom implementation. Therefore, the problem should not occur any more. However, if you still see abnormal time difference, you probably should contact Pfblog directly. They are very responsive and will help you fix the problem.

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