diff --git a/src/feedList.h b/src/feedList.h
index bbb79677f..39616d5f9 100644
--- a/src/feedList.h
+++ b/src/feedList.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public:
   }
 
   ~FeedList() {
-    delete unread_item;
+    //delete unread_item;
   }
 
   void itemAdded(QTreeWidgetItem *item, RssFile* file) {
diff --git a/src/rss.h b/src/rss.h
index 163b7afc5..cc8bc4497 100644
--- a/src/rss.h
+++ b/src/rss.h
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ protected:
   QDateTime parseDate(const QString &string) {
     QString str = string.trimmed();
     if (str.isEmpty())
-      return QDateTime();
+      return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
 
     int nyear  = 6;   // indexes within string to values
     int nmonth = 4;
@@ -155,12 +155,12 @@ protected:
       bool h1 = (parts[3] == QLatin1String("-"));
       bool h2 = (parts[5] == QLatin1String("-"));
       if (h1 != h2)
-        return QDateTime();
+        return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
     } else {
       // Check for the obsolete form "Wdy Mon DD HH:MM:SS YYYY"
       rx = QRegExp("^([A-Z][a-z]+)\\s+(\\S+)\\s+(\\d\\d)\\s+(\\d\\d):(\\d\\d):(\\d\\d)\\s+(\\d\\d\\d\\d)$");
       if (str.indexOf(rx))
-        return QDateTime();
+        return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
       nyear  = 7;
       nmonth = 2;
       nday   = 3;
@@ -176,12 +176,12 @@ protected:
     int hour   = parts[nhour].toInt(&ok[2]);
     int minute = parts[nmin].toInt(&ok[3]);
     if (!ok[0] || !ok[1] || !ok[2] || !ok[3])
-      return QDateTime();
+      return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
     int second = 0;
     if (!parts[nsec].isEmpty()) {
       second = parts[nsec].toInt(&ok[0]);
       if (!ok[0])
-        return QDateTime();
+        return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
     }
     bool leapSecond = (second == 60);
     if (leapSecond)
@@ -247,11 +247,11 @@ protected:
     }
     QDate qdate(year, month+1, day);   // convert date, and check for out-of-range
     if (!qdate.isValid())
-      return QDateTime();
+      return QDateTime::currentDateTime();
     QDateTime result(qdate, QTime(hour, minute, second));
     if (!result.isValid()
       ||  (dayOfWeek >= 0  &&  result.date().dayOfWeek() != dayOfWeek+1))
-      return QDateTime();    // invalid date/time, or weekday doesn't correspond with date
+      return QDateTime::currentDateTime();    // invalid date/time, or weekday doesn't correspond with date
     if (!offset) {
       result.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);
     }
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ protected:
       // Validate a leap second time. Leap seconds are inserted after 23:59:59 UTC.
       // Convert the time to UTC and check that it is 00:00:00.
       if ((hour*3600 + minute*60 + 60 - offset + 86400*5) % 86400)   // (max abs(offset) is 100 hours)
-        return QDateTime();    // the time isn't the last second of the day
+        return QDateTime::currentDateTime();    // the time isn't the last second of the day
     }
     return result;
   }
diff --git a/src/rss_imp.cpp b/src/rss_imp.cpp
index 967ab6d28..72a890295 100644
--- a/src/rss_imp.cpp
+++ b/src/rss_imp.cpp
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ void RSSImp::refreshTextBrowser() {
   html += "<div style='border: 2px solid red; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;'>";
   html += "<div style='background-color: #678db2; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;'>"+article->getTitle() + "</div>";
   if(article->getDate().isValid()) {
-    html += "<div style='background-color: #efefef;'><b>"+tr("Date: ")+"</b>"+article->getDate().toString()+"</div>";
+    html += "<div style='background-color: #efefef;'><b>"+tr("Date: ")+"</b>"+article->getDate().toLocalTime().toString(Qt::SystemLocaleLongDate)+"</div>";
   }
   if(!article->getAuthor().isEmpty()) {
     html += "<div style='background-color: #efefef;'><b>"+tr("Author: ")+"</b>"+article->getAuthor()+"</div>";