Release dates of Podcasts all say Dec 31, 2000

Thus, all of my podcasts are not in chronological order. Any way to fix this.
For the billionth time ... I freaking hate this app.

Okay, despite the well, total lack of replies from other people, it looks like I have solved the problem. The root cause is the source XML file itself, which was not being automatically generated by a blog software or the like. I was using an old XML program called Tristana Writer, which would make changes to the XML to make it more human readable. Specifically, it would add whitespace, paragraph breaks, etc.
Most podcast/RSS software is smart enough to strip these whitespace characters out. The iOS Podcasts app, unlike the iTunes Store listings, is not. Thus, the solution for me was to do some Find/Replace in my XML file.
The old XML file would have a paragraph break and a tab after the opening of the pubdate tag and before the closing of the tag. Let me see if I can paste that in without breaking anything as an example:
<pubDate>^P
Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:34:12 -0400
^P
</pubDate>
The solution is to remove the paragraph and the tab so that the pubDate tag line now looks like this:
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:34:12 -0400</pubDate>
Save the XML, ping Feedburner, refresh iOS Podcasts, and everything looks good again. This is definitely something that changed within the Podcasts app as of the new version, since prior versions had no problem parsing out the whitespace.

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Q: How do I add an mp3 podcast file to Mac iTunes 10.6.3 (the latest version as of July 13, 2012)?
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13. For each of the newly-updated podcast files in your Music library, select it so that it's highlighted, go to the FILE menu, select GET INFO, and click on OK to update the information in iTunes. Once you've done this for every file, all podcasts in the series should be under one folder. (If not, make sure the ALBUM field matches exactly for each file.)
I hope the above resolves all the difficulties you've experienced with Podcasts in iTunes. If not, let me know and I'll add more detail (or correct any inadvertent errors in my instructions).

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I keep all episodes of prefered podcast programs (like business week's cover stories), i sort all episodes of each program by release date, which i believe is the most accurate sorting method.
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You are correct- when creating a Smart Playlist, you are not allowed to sort the playlist by "Release Date".
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I assume you mean this podcast?
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/state-trance-official-podcast/id260190086?mt =2
(not one you've created yourself). The publishing date shows correctly in the iTunes Store and in iTunes when subscribing, but if you Get Info the 'Puchase date' is 1-1-04 - this is a default date because no date has been set. As you haven't actually purchased the episode it's irrelevant (it shows the purchased date on songs bought in the Store).
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