Delicious SPAM, prepare yourself.

[drunkoffthestars]

You may or may not know (or care), but Delicious is kinda 100% fuxored right now.

PROBLEM 1: I tried to export today, and the dates are all fucked up when I import into Pinboard.

I've successfully managed to pull down the complete list a per the clarification here. \o/

However, when I exported my bookmarks this morning using the export tool, the date information seems to be lost. The correct date is in the XML file, so I know it is in there somewhere, but the exported HTML file from the export tool has everything with a) the same date and b) some format that I don't understand. Does anyone know what this format is, and how to translate between the two?

The current HTML file gives something that looks like this: ADD_DATE="1317140086" and irritatingly don't seem to correspond to actual days when I look at the bookmarks that have the same 'date' and the ones that I actually bookmarked on the same day.

On my export for DELICIOUS IS DYING ROUND 1, the stuff looks the same, but imports a correct date on Pinboard. EX: ADD_DATE="1292375861" imports correctly as 2010.12.15   01:17:41 (though delicious doesn't display the timestamp now, if it even ever did).

I'm a complete novice when it comes to looking at api's and things, and I feel like there's something obvious I'm missing. I don't know if it is at all practical to actually go in and fix this, but I'd like to at least know what it is doing! SOLVED! Sorta. The date number is a decimal integer that represents the number of seconds elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970. *headdesk* I would really like to know who came up with THAT bright idea.

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[spatz]

I just...can't even look at it right now. I can't even see all my tags, nor figure out any way to view a full list. *cries in despair*

Thank god Polyamorous Recs just updated. *hides head in old-school site*

[drunkoffthestars]

*pats* don't look. it's better for everyone that way.

[spatz]

Unfortunately, I lied. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I poked around and now I want to cry even *more* and wrote an angry rant in a notepad file. At least all my bookmarks are intact, unlike poor bookshop.

[drunkoffthestars]

:((( For all that it is a giant clusterfuck of a shitshow, they do seem to be cranking out the updates and fixes? Despite completely avoiding any mention of the fact that it has been a mostly unmitigated disaster? IDK, I honestly think it'll get mostly fixed eventually, but... yeah. :(

[jamesinboots.livejournal.com]

Psst, clicked your entry via your comment at seperis.

I don't really have the brainpower right now to help with how to fix this, but a timestamp converter you might find useful:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm
Just plug the timestamp code (e.g., 1292375861) in there and it'll show you the date in a format that's understood without doing math. :D

You can go through and manually update each date to a format the place you're importing to will accept (trial-and-error on one may help), but that can be a pain if you have a lot of bookmarks. Best solution would be some kind of script or macro that will take a file full of the data and convert each ADD_DATE entry to the format you need.

[drunkoffthestars]

\o/ I knew something like that had to exist, but damn if I could even begin to think of how to find it!

I have an accurate backup from december, so it would ... only ... be like ... 100? or was it 50ish? idek, but knowing that it is possible to fix this with the help of the XML file has made me a much happier camper, even if it is a ricockulous by-hand solution.

THANK YOU!