# I get updated date in wrong format using atom feed helper

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-get-updated-date-in-wrong-format-using-atom-feed-helper/135368>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 21, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-get-updated-date-in-wrong-format-using-atom-feed-helper/135368 "2008-04-21T16:49:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![rya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@rya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rya)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-get-updated-date-in-wrong-format-using-atom-feed-helper/135368/1 "2008-04-21T16:49:57Z")

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Hi!  
I’m new in RoR and I’m using the atom feed helper to generate an atom  
feed in my web page but when I try to validate it using the Feed  
Validation service of W3C, I get the following error:

line 6, column 41: updated must be an RFC-3339 date-time: Thu Apr 17  
22:05:00 +0200 2008

It seems the plugin doesnt return the updated date for the whole feed  
in the right format and I dont see the way to change it.The rest of  
the feed looks fine: the published and updated node inside each entry  
node is in the right format.

Maybe there si something wrong with the version of the plugin? do I  
have to updated it? Is there any way to fix it?

Thanks a lot,

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**Author:** ![rya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@rya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rya)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-get-updated-date-in-wrong-format-using-atom-feed-helper/135368/2 "2008-04-22T14:52:16Z")

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How do you generate the atom feed using AtomFeedHelper? I don’t  
understand how to set it up.

I could then try to help you out.