When date string parsing failed, try parsing the string without the weekday

core/src/androidTest/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/tests/util/DateUtilsTest.java

@@ -122,4 +122,12 @@ public class DateUtilsTest extends AndroidTestCase {
         Date actual2 = DateUtils.parse("Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:00:00 CET");
         assertEquals(expected2, actual2);
     }
+
+    public void testParseDateWithIncorrectWeekday() {
+        GregorianCalendar exp1 = new GregorianCalendar(2014, 9, 8, 9, 00, 00);
+        exp1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
+        Date expected = new Date(exp1.getTimeInMillis());
+        Date actual = DateUtils.parse("Thu, 8 Oct 2014 09:00:00 GMT"); // actually a Wednesday
+        assertEquals(expected, actual);
+    }
 }

core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/util/DateUtils.java

@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ public class DateUtils {
             }
         }
 
+        // if date string starts with a weekday, try parsing date string without it
+        if(date.matches("^\\w+, .*$")) {
+            return parse(date.substring(date.indexOf(',') + 1));
+        }
+
         Log.d(TAG, "Could not parse date string \"" + input + "\" [" + date + "]");
         return null;
     }