Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "b" , SUSE 9.3)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11.4-21.7-default

I, for example, subscribe to the BBC News RSS feed. I have my article view set to show "All articles", sorted by date, and I have read every article that I have recently downloaded. When I fetch new articles, sometimes a new one appears which has a date/time set to a period before the most recent article. For example, if the most recent article I have is today at 6pm, a new one might appear timestamped with 1pm. This means I get a large table of read articles, with some new articles scattered down the bottom of the table. This is annoying as I now have to search through the table to find the new articles. I don't care what the timestamp is set to, I just care that it's an article I haven't read before and I think most people would be the same.

This is obviously a problem with the supplier of the RSS feed, but it is fairly common in my experience. The issue is even worse when you aggregate together multiple feeds from different websites. A similar situation occurs in email (because author's computers have slightly different clock times), which is solved in kmail by sorting mail by the order they were received in. I would like this feature in akregator as it groups all the new articles at the top of the table like they should be.

I know that I can set the table to only show new articles, but I like to have them all visible (like in my email client) as it allows me to quickly search for articles I read before that I want to check again.