django feeds has wrong pub date

Question

I have following problem.

handlers.py of project's django-piston api:

....
# "need" to set this for datetime.strftime()
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME,'de_AT.UTF-8')

class ItemOverviewHandler(BaseHandler):
    ...
    @classmethod
    def date(self, item):
        # because of the setlocale() call the datestring is in german
        # that's good
        return item.somedatefield.date.strftime("%d. %B %Y")
 ...

now it seems like this effects the project's feeds (created with django.contrib.syndication):

def item_pubdate(self, item):
    return item.pub_date #datetime field
# the rss look's like this
# that's not good
<pubDate>Die, 17 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

(this is an rfc conform date, BUT in german Die == Dienstag == Tuesday), thus it's invalid.

So I need the piston api response to be in german (done). but pubDate of the feed has to be in english (have no idea how to accomplish this).

Any suggestions?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '10 at 14:21

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this did the trick. but im still open for other suggestions :)

class ItemOverviewHandler(BaseHandler):
    ...
    @classmethod
    def date(self, item):
        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME,'de_AT.UTF-8')
        date_string = item.somedatefield.date.strftime("%d. %B %Y")
        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME,'')
        return date_string

answered Dec 02 '10 at 14:21

fetzig

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Could this somehow affect a simultaneous request of your feed in the splitsecond that your locale is set to Austrian (and hence your feed not being RFC-conform)? – Tom van Enckevort Dec 02 '10 at 14:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '10 at 14:31

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You could use the Babel internationalization module. Look here for the format_date function that formats datetime with a specific locale.

answered Dec 02 '10 at 14:31

Tom van Enckevort

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