RSS: handle dates differently?

[rauschma]

I love this site and its feed! Alas, in an RSS reader, feed entries often appear in the past. I’m assuming that’s due to the entries using the dates of the sources(?) Would it help if the date of a feed entry were the date of its creation?

[ebidel]

Are you seeing this mainly from content from developers.google.com/web? Many articles there are bulk published at once, but are often written several days/weeks in advance. When this site picks them up, it makes it look as though they're from the past.

Somewhat related, I made a note here about rss-parser not handling <updated> correctly and using it has pub date instead.