Bug 512307 - Recognize and parse RFC 822 dates that use "Z" as a timezone, r=mak

toolkit/components/feeds/FeedProcessor.js

@@ -873,6 +873,9 @@ function rssArrayElement(s) {
  */
 function dateParse(aDateString) {
   let dateString = aDateString.trim();
+  // Without bug 682781 fixed, JS won't parse an RFC822 date with a Z for the
+  // timezone, so convert to -00:00 which works for any date format.
+  dateString = dateString.replace(/z$/i, "-00:00");
   let date = new Date(dateString);
   if (!isNaN(date)) {
     return date.toUTCString();

toolkit/components/feeds/test/xml/rss2/feed_pubDate_timezoneZ.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!--
+
+Description: Test whether date parsing handles "Z" as a timezone in RFC822.
+Expect:      feed.updated == 'Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT'
+
+-->
+<rss version="2.0" >
+<channel>
+<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:00:00 Z</pubDate>
+</channel>
+</rss>