- Patch #8531 by drumm: took this date parser from MagpieRSS (conveniently GPL). The main benefit here is that timezones are handled properly (I have been noticing increasing complaints about that). I tested with a few feeds of different time formats and time zones and everything appeared correctly in my site's local time. Making this another function adds the benefit of parsability by other RSS (or other contexts) and RSS extension handling functions, where the W3C DTF is recomended.