diff --git a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/handler/SyndHandler.java b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/handler/SyndHandler.java
index 47503dee4..1dda24944 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/handler/SyndHandler.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/handler/SyndHandler.java
@@ -1,23 +1,14 @@
 package de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.handler;
 
 import android.util.Log;
-
+import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.BuildConfig;
+import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.feed.Feed;
+import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.*;
+import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.atom.NSAtom;
 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
 
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.BuildConfig;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.feed.Feed;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSContent;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSDublinCore;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSITunes;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSMedia;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSRSS20;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.NSSimpleChapters;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.Namespace;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.SyndElement;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace.atom.NSAtom;
-
 /** Superclass for all SAX Handlers which process Syndication formats */
 public class SyndHandler extends DefaultHandler {
 	private static final String TAG = "SyndHandler";
@@ -109,12 +100,7 @@ public class SyndHandler extends DefaultHandler {
 				state.namespaces.put(uri, new NSMedia());
 				if (BuildConfig.DEBUG)
 					Log.d(TAG, "Recognized media namespace");
-			} else if (uri.equals(NSDublinCore.NSURI)
-                    && prefix.equals(NSDublinCore.NSTAG)) {
-                state.namespaces.put(uri, new NSDublinCore());
-                if (BuildConfig.DEBUG)
-                    Log.d(TAG, "Recognized DublinCore namespace");
-            }
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/namespace/NSDublinCore.java b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/namespace/NSDublinCore.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 099593eed..000000000
--- a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/namespace/NSDublinCore.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-package de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.namespace;
-
-import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
-
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.handler.HandlerState;
-import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.syndication.util.SyndDateUtils;
-
-public class NSDublinCore extends Namespace {
-    private static final String TAG = "NSDublinCore";
-    public static final String NSTAG = "dc";
-    public static final String NSURI = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
-
-    private static final String ITEM = "item";
-    private static final String DATE = "date";
-
-    @Override
-    public SyndElement handleElementStart(String localName, HandlerState state,
-                                          Attributes attributes) {
-        return new SyndElement(localName, this);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void handleElementEnd(String localName, HandlerState state) {
-        if(state.getTagstack().size() >= 2
-                && state.getContentBuf() != null) {
-            String content = state.getContentBuf().toString();
-            SyndElement topElement = state.getTagstack().peek();
-            String top = topElement.getName();
-            SyndElement secondElement = state.getSecondTag();
-            String second = secondElement.getName();
-            if (top.equals(DATE) && second.equals(ITEM)) {
-                state.getCurrentItem().setPubDate(
-                        SyndDateUtils.parseISO8601Date(content));
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/util/SyndDateUtils.java b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/util/SyndDateUtils.java
index a9929d7b1..1ac389f08 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/util/SyndDateUtils.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/syndication/util/SyndDateUtils.java
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ public class SyndDateUtils {
      */
     public static final String RFC3339LOCAL = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ";
 
-    public static final String ISO8601_SHORT = "yyyy-MM-dd";
-
     private static ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> RFC822Formatter = new ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>() {
         @Override
         protected SimpleDateFormat initialValue() {
@@ -46,14 +44,6 @@ public class SyndDateUtils {
 
     };
 
-    private static ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat> ISO8601ShortFormatter = new ThreadLocal<SimpleDateFormat>() {
-        @Override
-        protected SimpleDateFormat initialValue() {
-            return new SimpleDateFormat(ISO8601_SHORT, Locale.US);
-        }
-
-    };
-
     public static Date parseRFC822Date(String date) {
         Date result = null;
         if (date.contains("PDT")) {
@@ -133,23 +123,6 @@ public class SyndDateUtils {
 
     }
 
-    public static Date parseISO8601Date(String date) {
-        if(date.length() > ISO8601_SHORT.length()) {
-            return parseRFC3339Date(date);
-        }
-        Date result = null;
-        if(date.length() == "YYYYMMDD".length()) {
-            date = date.substring(0, 4) + "-" + date.substring(4, 6) + "-" + date.substring(6,8);
-        }
-        SimpleDateFormat format = ISO8601ShortFormatter.get();
-        try {
-            result = format.parse(date);
-        } catch (ParseException e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-        return result;
-    }
-
     /**
      * Takes a string of the form [HH:]MM:SS[.mmm] and converts it to
      * milliseconds.