Google Sitemap Has Issues - Wrong Date Displays

[SuperDave1971]

I was recently updating my Google sitemaps and I found several errors that I was concerned about.

I have NO idea how I could have received a value of 1969-12-31 for the date. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a fix? I would like to get this fixed as soon as I could.


I appreciate the help.



Google Sitemap error:

Invalid date
An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting. Parent tag: url
Tag: lastmod
Value: 1969-12-31T17:00:00-07:00
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010



The sitemap in question is:

http://www.thelovelogic.com/forum/xmlsitemap.php?fn=vbulletin_sitemap_forum_2.xml.gz

[Videx]

That date just translates to "Before time began". I'm not sure it's an error (I hope not anyway since mine has three of them!); presumably you imported something at some point. In my case these forums were imported from our old Snitz forum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch

[ToNetU]

am getting the same error! i heard it's a bug with non-english forums (using another language pack instead of english) ..

what i did and i know if it's the right fix, but it worked with google sitemap..
- i download (vbulletin_sitemap_forum_2.xml.gz) file
- edit the old dates and change to new date & time (2010 !! )
- upload it again to the (sitemap) folder
- resubmit it .
- https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/images/check.gif appeared next to it!

[Videx]

Where are you guys seeing this error? It's a perfectly valid date, so I'm not sure why someone should claim it's an error.

But if it is, manually editing the sitemap file every few weeks isn't really a solution.

[your24hourstore]

it is just forum and index of the 5 XML they generate this 1969 date, it is a bug of some sort

the error is in google tools it gets a warning for having the wrong date in the xml file submitted to them. its a bug of some kind