I'm having trouble with the Local Weather and Local Headlines portal blocks on JTravis.us

The blocks seem to make an attempt to refresh everytime the page is refreshed. unfortunately both feeds have a 60 minute speed limit on their hosts, so I frequently get errors from the feeds telling me to slow down.

I think I've read that the feeds are only supposed to be requesting updates every 60 minutes, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Could you direct me to the correct file and line to validate the 60 minute rule?

i get tired of seeing the errors on my page.

They are. This is the first time I've ever heard of problems with this, so I'm a bit stumped.

I can only think of problems with the server's time right now. Or maybe different time settings for the webserver and the database server or something like that. Those should be apparent elsewhere, though, eg. when posting new stories or comments.



It's hard-coded in function COM_rdfCheck in lib-common.php:
bye, Dirk

OK, my host is in eastern time and I am in Central. I never really pay attention to time on my site, so I may have something related to time set incorrectly by one hour. I'll keep digging. Thanks for using fresh eyes on this. I was stumped too. At least you gave me a new direction.

I really love Geeklog by the way. I'm trying to learn from the way it is all coded to clean up some of my own stuff at work.

Issue resolved...

After doing a little reading, I realized I needed to take advantage of the timezone hack by setting $_CONF['timezone'] = 'CST6CDT' in config.php

It looks like I spoke too soon. Dirk (or anyone) could you test this rss feed?

Refresh whatever page you put it on a few times and see if it says "slow down." It's doing it again...

RSS Weather Feed for Brighton, TN

I also get that message, so something's wrong here. Haven't had a chance to dig any deeper ...

bye, Dirk

Now that I've finally come around to setting up an environment to debug the problem, it doesn't happen any more ...

Is anyone else having this problem with this or similar feeds?

bye, Dirk

I'm seeing a portal refresh everytime the page is loaded. It appears to be for both the weather block and the rss feeds from slashdot and groklaw. I load the page and hit reload and it will still contact the sites for the feed, even though it had just grabbed the feed a few seconds before. I'm on 1.3.11sr2, is there something I have set wrong?

It shouldn't do that. And there's nothing for you to configure here - the one hour delay is hard-coded.

A thought I just had: Are you using the timezone hack?

bye, Dirk

I'm not using the timezone hack.

It must be something to do with my setup. I set the time in the COM_rdfcheck to 7200 and that stopped the update on every refresh.

I've done the same and the issue seems to be resolved. I'm guessing still that it has something to do with me being in central time, using the time hack because the web and database servers are in eastern time.