Atom feed bad dates in google reader?

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My atom feed validates [1] and shows in various browsers fine (the published date). I'm using the atom_feed_helper [2] very minimally modified and am on Rails 2.1. I am also using Feedbuner as the xml +rss alternate link in the meta section.

Whenever I subscribe to the feed in google reader, it also shows the posts as the date I uploaded my application to the production server. So in other words, if I uploaded today, google reader will show today for all the posts.

I examined the output XML to something Mephisto would put out, and it looks very similar. I tried tweaking the date format using strftime. I've thrown away the atom_builder code and did some older RSS code from dzone snippets and elsewhere, also making sure they validate. Yet despite all that, I still can't get the dates to show up in google reader correctly! Agghh. Any ideas?

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[1] Feed Validator Results: http://webandy.com/feed [2] http://github.com/rails/atom_feed_helper/tree/master

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Also I'm using page caching in a couple places, but the feed should be generated from the builder DSL code for each request. Has anyone had problems with feedburner messing up the feed? It appears to be a valid Atom feed as well.

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Anyone? Have a totally separate app using rss.builder (not atom). feed is valid RSS 2.0. In Google reader, still see a different date than the published data for the article, see the date that appears to be when feedburner updated. Pretty annoying.