Bug: RSS Date Displays in UTC – has patch

Below is a patch that will allow hungryfeed to grab the local timezone set for the blog, and change the date / time to match instead of by default displaying the UTC timestamp.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Index: hungryfeed.php
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--- hungryfeed.php      (revision 1365103)
+++ hungryfeed.php      (working copy)
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
                                'description' => $description,
                                'content' => $content,
                                'author' => $author_name,
-                               'post_date' => $item->get_date($date_format),
+                               'post_date' => hungryfeed_converttolocaltime($item->get_date($date_format),$date_format),
                                'source_title' => $source_title,
                                'source_permalink' => $source_permalink,
                                'latitude' => $item->get_latitude(),
@@ -419,8 +419,8 @@
                                        echo '<div class="hungryfeed_item_content">' . $content . "</div>\n";
                                if ($author_name && in_array("author",$item_fields))
                                        echo '<div class="hungryfeed_item_author">Author: ' . $author_name . "</div>\n";
-                               if ($item->get_date() && in_array("date",$item_fields))
-                                       echo '<div class="hungryfeed_item_date">Posted: ' . $item->get_date($date_format) . "</div>\n";
+                               if (hungryfeed_converttolocaltime($item->get_date(),$date_format) && in_array("date",$item_fields))
+                                       echo '<div class="hungryfeed_item_date">Posted: ' . hungryfeed_converttolocaltime($item->get_date($date_format),$date_format) . "</div>\n";
                        echo "</div>\n";
                }

@@ -613,3 +613,17 @@
        $qvars[] = 'hf_page';  // used by pagination
        return $qvars;
 }
+
+/**
+ * converts the UTC date from the RSS feed into the local date
+ * set on the settings page
+ *
+ * @param string UTC date pulled from rss
+ * @param string date format string pulled from shortcode
+ */
+function hungryfeed_converttolocaltime ( $time, $date_format ) {
+       $ts = strtotime($time);
+       $tz = get_option('timezone_string');
+        if ( $tz ) date_default_timezone_set( $tz );
+       return get_date_from_gmt(gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s',$ts),$date_format);
+}

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