guybrush threepwood meets macgyver on a bad day, now there's a hopefully working hack for what didn't work.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rssg b/rssg
index 05ca9431..7f5373cb 100755
--- a/rssg
+++ b/rssg
@@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ date_rfc_822() {
 }
 
 
+feed_date_rfc_822() {
+         if date --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+             date -d "$(echo "$1")" --rfc-822
+        else
+            date -j '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z' \
+                 "$(echo "$1"| tr -cd '[:digit:]')0000"
+        fi
+}
+
+
 render_items() {
         while read -r i
         do render_item "$1" "$2" "$i"
@@ -200,7 +210,7 @@ render_feed() {
 <language>en</language>
 <description>'"$description"'</description>
 <link>'"$base_url"'/</link>
-<lastBuildDate>'"$(date_rfc_822 date)"'</lastBuildDate>
+<lastBuildDate>'"$(feed_date_rfc_822 date)"'</lastBuildDate>
 '"$(cat)"'
 </channel></rss>'
 }