syndicationagent warning in console.log

dirt farmer

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Can anyone tell me what this means? I am getting this message in my console.log for last two days. Here is a snippet:

2005-06-06 17:15:38.479 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Monday, June 06, 2005 17:18 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.630 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sun, March 13 2005 20:55 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.631 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Mon, March 28 2005 13:33 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.633 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sun, April 03 2005 14:01 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.634 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Sun, April 17 2005 14:20 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.635 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Thu, May 05 2005 21:54 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.636 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Tue, May 10 2005 23:49 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.637 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Mon, May 16 2005 15:10 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.638 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Mon, May 23 2005 11:27 PDT'
2005-06-06 17:15:38.640 SyndicationAgent[498] WARNING: BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Mon, May 30 2005 15:19 PDT'


If you look at the top line, you will see that the warning was written at 17:15, yet cannot interpret something from today at 17:18, three minutes in the future! This happens each and every time a new RSS feed appears in my bookmark bar. And the top line is always written at the current time, three minutes before the time it's trying to interpret??!!

I have deleted the syndication.plist and the syndicationagent.plist. I have repaired permissions and run fsck. But still, whenever a new RSS article appears in my bookmark bar, this warning appears in my console.log.

Any suggestions as to the cause and a fix?

Thanks in advance.
 
After many hours I found the source of these messages on my system, hopefully this can help you too.

Some news sites I am interested in don't publish an RSS feed, so I used the services of another site at http://www.newslookup.com/rss.html - they scrape many sites and create an RSS feed for them. I guess there's something about the way they format these feeds, because it was those feeds that caused the SyndicationAgent messages about BestCalendarDataFromString.

Removing these feeds caused the endless Console messages to stop. (They're very responsive at newslookup.com so I'm sure they'll rectify this soon).
 
I keep getting a request to allow syndicationagent to access my keychain..is this legit?


I dont know why I hae no RSS that I know of. jean
 
The SyndicationAgent process downloads news articles in the background every half hour (by default). Safari launches it when you view a news feed or bookmark a "feed:" URL.
 
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