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I’m having a helluva time trying to get a properly formatted date in an RSS feed from a custom field.

Pulling one from an entry_date is easy enough, but for entries that are updated, we have a field to generate that timestamp. Works fine on the normal display, but I can’t seem to make RSS readers or Google happy, no matter what formatting hoops and various PHP permutations I try. Ideas?

thanks!

Just so we’re clear, have you tried the following?

{custom_date format="{DATE_RSS}"}

Blast!

I’ve never noticed that date format before. If that’s available, why do everyone’s RSS templates make date formatting more complex?

No idea!

This part of the documentation is certainly useful: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/date_variable_formatting.html

There are a bunch of different variables that you can use and you can also set your own Global Variables if your preferred format isn’t here. It keeps things DRY.