Wp-calypso: Reader Search: date sorted sites aren't date sorted

[fraying]

When sorting site results by date, they should be most recently updated to least recently updated, right? Currently they're not.

The first result in a date sorted site search for "farm" is 11 days ago. The second is 27 minutes ago.

cc @gibrown

[samouri]

I'm assuming you were looking at the "updated X minutes ago".
By clicking through to the underlying blogs I noticed that they are actually sorted correctly, but the times we are displaying in the search results are wrong.

Sadly they come from different data sources and I'm not sure how to reconcile the two.

@gibrown can we make the search results include the last time modified for the site?
@blowery is there any way to mimic how es is getting dates?

edit: just realized I'm not sure where this data is coming from actually
double edit: I am now seeing the bug

[gibrown]

I was wondering if anyone would actually notice. :)

We don't currently update the record every time someone publishes. So it is more pseudo date sorted. I can look into what the volume would be.

[fraying]

For example: In this date-sorted posts result for "Trump" the first result is a year old.

[gibrown]

I deployed a fix to keep RSS feeds up to date in the indexing. Keeping blogs up to date is a lot more indexing, so going to see how things perform as we launch.

[samouri]

@gibrown: whats the status of this issue?

[gibrown]

@samouri It is fixed for rss feeds, but on the back-burner because fixing it for blogs broke other things due to the volume.