Pfblog.org Fixed Timing Problem of My Blog

Since I joined Pfblog.org late last month, I have been enjoying being a member of the PF community and have read lots of interesting posts from fellow bloggers, whom I had no way to meet before.

While happy to be part of the group, I had been bothered for a while since I noticed the difference between the time I published my posts on my blog and the time shown on Pfblog when the posts appeared. The difference ranged from a couple of hours to five or six hours and sometimes the time stamps on Pfblog were even earlier than the posts were actually submitted. Frustrated by the fact that even my newest posts appeared as old ones when they showed up on Pfblog, I emailed Pfblog and demanded an explanation. I even complained of being treated unfairly (yes, I wanted my posts to appear on the front page because I myself almost never flipped to the second page). I simply couldn’t understand how a post can have a time stamp earlier than the time it was originally created.

Well, apparently there is something wrong with my blog that I wasn’t aware of (the time on my blog was correct). After a couple of email exchanges, Pfblog identified the problem as a lousy “Blogger’s Atom implementation? and switched to RSS feed instead of Atom feed (maybe you should check if you also had this problem). Ever since the switch, everything worked perfectly. In addition, Pfblog also said they would adjust their software to adjust the interpretation of Blogger’s Atom time stamp.

In the end, I apologized to Pfblog about the unfair treatment comment I made (I shouldn’t have jumped into any conclusion before all the facts were out) and appreciate all the help I received from them.