Monday, December 25, 2006

Blogger time zone feed fix

Merry Christmas,
I doubt many will post today, but more and more people are upgrading to the Blogger bebeta (although it's no longer considered a beta). Once you make this move, a change in your settings is needed.

Our note about it:

Some people who upgrade to the Blogger Beta are finding that their post appears four hours down in the feed. That can be fixed with this change:

To ensure that your blog appears at or near the top of the feed when you publish, go to Blogger's Settings and change the Time Zone to [UTC+00:00] Greenwich Meantime. Once that change is made, republish your blog. This time zone change will compensate for the time posting problem and when you publish a new post it should appear at or near the top of the feed. That's all you need to do.

This next part is optional, but you may want to change the time stamp in Settings to just show the date instead of a time, for instance, Tuesday, December 31, 2006. Here's something else you can do. At the bottom of each post, you will see "Post Options. Just before you publish your latest post, change the time to reflect the current time. Your post, when it appears on the feed, should show the time you select.