clintbellanger/nanoblog — pull request #2 by CruzR (2013-09-26 00:41:51+00:00)
Title: <pubDate> Support: Added a solution for PHP >= 5.2.0.

I've dug into the documentation and found that `date_create` is able to parse the timestamp format you are using. This should work for all PHP versions >= 5.2.0.