Google Feed API 'publishedDate' wrong day

Question

When using Google Feed API JSON result the origin RSS is being converted a day off in the JSON results.

For example the following origin RSS entry:

<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

...becomes:

"Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:00:00 -0700"

...in the JSON result. Is there any way to designate a time zone so it knows not to convert?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There is no 'wrong day' in your question, both date strings are equivalent, just in different timezones. In your Javascript you can just construct a Date object from either one and then use the Date methods like either toLocaleString or toUTCString to represent it locally however you want it to.

Here's a sample Fiddle to play with.