From f44cee4da00eb1dc91234f47f859b5bc100fcb8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dsl101 <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:50:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add option to parse dates as strings

Finally, after only two years! I got back to the project I was working on, and needed this functionality, so made a PR against the latest code. Assume nothing else has changed which might affect it, but happy to
---
 lib/feedparser/index.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/feedparser/index.js b/lib/feedparser/index.js
index 7915725..7088efc 100644
--- a/lib/feedparser/index.js
+++ b/lib/feedparser/index.js
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ function FeedParser (options) {
   if (!('strict' in this.options)) this.options.strict = false;
   if (!('normalize' in this.options)) this.options.normalize = true;
   if (!('addmeta' in this.options)) this.options.addmeta = true;
+  if (!('parseDate' in this.options)) this.options.parseDate = true;
   if (!('resume_saxerror' in this.options)) this.options.resume_saxerror = true;
   if ('MAX_BUFFER_LENGTH' in this.options) {
     sax.MAX_BUFFER_LENGTH = this.options.MAX_BUFFER_LENGTH; // set to Infinity to have unlimited buffers
@@ -430,6 +431,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleMeta = function handleMeta (node, type, options) {
 
   var meta = {}
     , normalize = !options || (options && options.normalize)
+    , parseDate = !options || (options && options.parseDate)
     ;
 
   if (normalize) {
@@ -461,6 +463,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleMeta = function handleMeta (node, type, options) {
       case('dc:date'):
         var date = _.get(el) ? new Date(_.get(el)) : null;
         if (!date) break;
+        if (parseDate) date = date.toString();
         if (meta.pubdate === null || name == 'pubdate' || name == 'published')
           meta.pubdate = meta.pubDate = date;
         if (meta.date === null || name == 'lastbuilddate' || name == 'modified' || name == 'updated')
@@ -777,6 +780,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleItem = function handleItem (node, type, options){
 
   var item = {}
     , normalize = !options || (options && options.normalize)
+    , parseDate = !options || (options && options.parseDate)
     ;
 
   if (normalize) {
@@ -815,6 +819,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleItem = function handleItem (node, type, options){
       case('dc:date'):
         var date = _.get(el) ? new Date(_.get(el)) : null;
         if (!date) break;
+        if (dateAsString) date = date.toString();
         if (item.pubdate === null || name == 'pubdate' || name == 'published' || name == 'issued')
           item.pubdate = item.pubDate = date;
         if (item.date === null || name == 'modified' || name == 'updated')

From 44ace0be578100fb7022eccf7189103870e78984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dsl101 <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:06:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix typo and switch to ISO format

Fixed one left-over option name, and switched to ISO string, so easier to handle internationally. Probably.
---
 lib/feedparser/index.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/feedparser/index.js b/lib/feedparser/index.js
index 7088efc..2d8fea0 100644
--- a/lib/feedparser/index.js
+++ b/lib/feedparser/index.js
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleMeta = function handleMeta (node, type, options) {
       case('dc:date'):
         var date = _.get(el) ? new Date(_.get(el)) : null;
         if (!date) break;
-        if (parseDate) date = date.toString();
+        if (parseDate) date = date.toISOString();
         if (meta.pubdate === null || name == 'pubdate' || name == 'published')
           meta.pubdate = meta.pubDate = date;
         if (meta.date === null || name == 'lastbuilddate' || name == 'modified' || name == 'updated')
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ FeedParser.prototype.handleItem = function handleItem (node, type, options){
       case('dc:date'):
         var date = _.get(el) ? new Date(_.get(el)) : null;
         if (!date) break;
-        if (dateAsString) date = date.toString();
+        if (parseDate) date = date.toISOString();
         if (item.pubdate === null || name == 'pubdate' || name == 'published' || name == 'issued')
           item.pubdate = item.pubDate = date;
         if (item.date === null || name == 'modified' || name == 'updated')