Hey Aleksander,
Thanks for reaching out to Atlassian Community!
It's a really good observation and you're right to question how the pubDate field is being used in the Statuspage RSS feed.
In the RSS 2.0 specification, the pubDate is meant to reflect when the item was published — for example, when a blog post or news article goes live. However, in the Statuspage RSS feed, pubDate is currently used to show the scheduled timeor the last updated time of a maintenance or incident, even if that time is in the future.
This approach isn't fully aligned with the RSS specification. As a result, some feed readers or RSS validators might see this as a problem — especially when the pubDate is set in the future. That's likely why you're seeing warnings like “implausible dates” in your RSS validator.
That said, this is currently expected behavior in Statuspage. The reason is that RSS doesn't offer a separate field for things like "event start time" or "last update." So the pubDate field is reused to make sure feed readers display upcoming events in a useful way — even if it’s technically outside of spec.
We’ve seen this feedback before and it’s something we’ve passed along internally. Ideally, it could be improved in the future — for example, by introducing custom elements or handling timestamps differently — but for now, it’s working this way by design.
Hope this helps clarify things!
Best Regards,
Egor
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