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skipHours and skipDays

Thursday, July 17, 2003

These two sub-elements of <channel> came from scriptingNews format, designed in late 1997, and adopted by Netscape in RSS 0.91 in the spring of 1999.

skipHours 

An XML element that contains up to 24 <hour> sub-elements whose value is a number between 0 and 23, representing a time in GMT, when aggregators, if they support the feature, may not read the channel on hours listed in the skipHours element.

The hour beginning at midnight is hour zero.

skipDays 

An XML element that contains up to seven <day> sub-elements whose value is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Aggregators may not read the channel during days listed in the skipDays element.