Testing fix for odd UTC date format in RSS

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/wruby.rb b/wruby.rb
index c9924c6..ffbb1c6 100644
--- a/wruby.rb
+++ b/wruby.rb
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ def extract_title_from_md(lines)
   first_line&.start_with?('# ') ? first_line[2..-1].strip : 'Blog Index'
 end
 
+# Grab the date from each markdown file
+def extract_date_from_md(lines)
+  date_str = lines[2]&.strip
+  begin
+    date_str ? DateTime.parse(date_str).new_offset(0) : DateTime.now.new_offset(0)
+  rescue Date::Error
+    DateTime.now.new_offset(0)
+  end
+end
+
 # Convert markdown files
 def process_markdown_files(input_directory, output_directory, header_content, footer_content)
   items = []
@@ -56,7 +66,7 @@ def process_markdown_files(input_directory, output_directory, header_content, fo
     lines = md_content.lines
 
     title = extract_title_from_md(lines)
-    date = Date.parse(lines[2]&.strip || '') rescue Date.today
+    date = extract_date_from_md(lines)
     html_content = Kramdown::Document.new(md_content).to_html
 
     relative_path = path.sub(input_directory + '/', '').sub('.md', '')
@@ -113,7 +123,7 @@ def generate_rss(posts, rss_file, author_name, site_name, site_url, posts_dir)
     maker.channel.link = site_url
 
     posts.each do |post|
-      date = DateTime.parse(post[:date].to_s).to_time.utc
+      date = DateTime.parse(post[:date].to_s).new_offset('-05:00')
       item_link = "#{site_url}/#{posts_dir}/#{post[:link]}"
       item_title = post[:title]
       item_content = post[:content]
@@ -121,8 +131,8 @@ def generate_rss(posts, rss_file, author_name, site_name, site_url, posts_dir)
       maker.items.new_item do |item|
         item.link = item_link
         item.title = item_title
-        item.updated = date.to_s
-        item.pubDate = date.rfc822
+        item.updated = date.to_time.to_s
+        item.pubDate = date.to_time.rfc822
         item.description = item_content
       end
     end
@@ -131,6 +141,7 @@ def generate_rss(posts, rss_file, author_name, site_name, site_url, posts_dir)
   File.write(rss_file, rss)
 end
 
+
 # Process header, posts, pages, etc.
 header_content = File.read(header_file)