History of RSS date formats. I want to talk about prior art. But I can't do that yet, because first I need to give my opinion about this “funky RSS” business. (1142 words) [dive into mark]
As long as I have worked with computers date formats have been an issue and that is a long time. Its kind of sad that date formats are the source of this “funky RSS” business. The good news is that Mark wrote a nice essay on the history of dates in RSS.