Mails in Mail have wrong Timestamp

Hello Communitiy
I had a problem with my Mail, the Mails weren't downloaded, so i decided to rebuild the Index with "Mailbox > Recovery". After the rebuild, 50% of my Mails had a wrong Received Timestamp (the Timestamp from 50% of the Mails where set to the Timestamp where the rebuilding Process finished).
I tried to recover my System from a TimeMachine Backup, but I had no lick. After opening Mail the first time, the rebuild/index process started, and again 50% of the Mails the Timestamp was set to the Timestamp after the Indexin-Process finished.
I found in the Logs following entry:
30.01.14 06:59:50.883 Mail[3607]: Unable to parse date: "So Okt 02 08:03:17 2011"
Stripped string: "So Okt 02 08:03:17 2011"
Can anyone help me?
Best Regards
Patrick

i'm having similar issue. huge amounts of my "archived" mail are now have a recent date incorrectly applied.
the problem is pretty easy to reproduce and demonstrate in mavericks.   for example, if you dig down into one of the mailbox folders until you find files containing individual message (.emlx files), you can preview them (with quick look - i.e., space bar in the finder).   this will generate a parse error viewable in console.   the preview of the message shows it has having no date.    inspection of the text file shows a date header like this: "Date: Thu Feb 13, 2003 5:22:20 PM US/Eastern", which to my eye appears to be out of spec wrt RFC 2822.
according to that spec, allowable time zone specs are of the form of the GMT offset expressed as a string consisting of a '+' or '-' followed by a four digit offset.    there is also legacy support for "obsolete" timezone specs of certain legacy timezone formats such as "EST", etc. but not a full string like "US/Eastern".   also the standard does not seem to allow 12-hour time format, nor a single-digit hour format. thus "5:22:20 PM" is not allowed and should instead be written as "17:22:20".
the mail in question may have originated on some other system.   it was likely originated on a non-mac system.   however, i know that the same files were handled correctly by earlier versions of mail.app (than my current version, 7.3).
i will probably try using a perl script or something to go through and re-write the dates to conforming values, then see if doing a "rebuild" would correct the problem.   shouldn't be necessary to do this, however.   within reason, i think no version of apple mail should ever fail to process an earlier version of apple mail's files.   apple should have plenty of data to use for regression testing this kind of stuff.    if they are going to break compatibility, then they should provide a translator or import utility or something rather than just leaving people hanging.
the irony is that when i encountered this bug, i was trying to bring in mail not from some old dusty osx box from 2001, but instead from 5-day old backups of my current/personal machine that i just lost, also running the latest versions of mavericks/mail.

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