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    Diarist & Wordpress

    Diarist is a XMLRPC/MetaWeblog API-compatable client for blog posting from your PocketPC.

    I tried Diarist last night and found one problem.  so i went to the author's blog and sent some feedback:

    One thing I noticed: when posting to my Wordpress blog my timezone (GMT -6 central us time) was not taken into account.. result is my post is "scheduled" to be published 6 hours later.

    In like 10 minutes Kevin emailed me back the explanation: evidently some blog engines (like Wordpress and Community Server) treat the time of the post as local time rather than UTC.

    I thought wordpress knew that all dates were in UTC

    I woke up this morning with an email from Kevin saying It's updated and fixed. He added an hours offset field in the Extra tab. I can adjust that to my timezone.

     

    Diarist is fast and so is Kevin. Nice.

     

     

    4 Responses to “Diarist & Wordpress”

    1. Alastair Cooke Says:

      I'm trying to use Diarist with Wordpress too.
      What path did you need to enter for the API URL?

    2. Matt Says:

      the file name is xmlrpc.php, so append that to your blog url. it was http://mhinze.com/xmlrpc.php for me.

    3. Alastair Cooke Says:

      Thanks Matt, worked great for me too.

    4. Demitasse » Preparations for TSX Says:

      [...] with VMware is always fun.  Looking around using the great revealer I came across Diarist and Matt helped me set it up to work with Wordpress, now I'm set for mobile [...]

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