title: WordPress published date getting broken
body: <p>I could use some help.</p>
  
  <p>I have a site that keeps having the RSS go down because of a super future-dated post. And it's not on purpose. So it is screwing up the last updated field in the RSS.</p>
  
  <p>Now, it is pulling in these posts based off a plugin that was custom written for it. </p>
  
  <p>What I THINK is happening is that when that plugin was developed, they used a date format that isn't the default for WordPress and so it is occasionally throwing a monkey wrench in the works and post dating to January 19th, 2038 (always the same date)</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code for setting publish date:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        if($item-&gt;pubDate == ''){
              $item-&gt;pubDate = date('D, d M Y h:i:s').' +0000';
          }
          $news_date = date('Y-m-d D h:i:s', strtotime($item-&gt;pubDate));
          $news_title = htmlentities($item-&gt;title);
          $my_post = array(
            'post_title'    =&gt;  $news_title,
            'post_type'     =&gt; 'news',
            'post_content'  =&gt; $item-&gt;description,
            'post_status'   =&gt; 'publish',
            'post_date'     =&gt; $news_date
          );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As opposed to the WordPress default Y-m-d H:i:s</p>
  
  <p>Anyone think this might be the problem?</p>
  
  <p>It's intermittent- so very hard to test.</p>