diff --git a/source/de/anomic/http/httpHeader.java b/source/de/anomic/http/httpHeader.java
index 35008bb09..e78348e86 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/http/httpHeader.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/http/httpHeader.java
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ public final class httpHeader extends TreeMap implements Map {
         http1_1.put("504","Gateway Time-out");
         http1_1.put("505","HTTP Version not supported");        
     }
-    
+
     private final HashMap reverseMappingCache;
 
     private static final Collator insensitiveCollator = Collator.getInstance(Locale.US);
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ public final class httpHeader extends TreeMap implements Map {
     }
 
     private Date headerDate(String kind) {
-        if (containsKey(kind)) return parseHTTPDate((String) get(kind));
+        if (containsKey(kind)) return new Date(parseHTTPDate((String) get(kind)).getTime());
         else return null;
     }
     
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaHTCache.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaHTCache.java
index 2ff996750..621587caf 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaHTCache.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaHTCache.java
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.TreeMap;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
 
 import de.anomic.htmlFilter.htmlFilterContentScraper;
 import de.anomic.http.httpHeader;
@@ -69,6 +72,7 @@ import de.anomic.kelondro.kelondroMap;
 import de.anomic.server.serverFileUtils;
 import de.anomic.server.serverInstantThread;
 import de.anomic.server.logging.serverLog;
+import de.anomic.server.serverDate;
 import de.anomic.tools.enumerateFiles;
 
 public final class plasmaHTCache {
@@ -680,8 +684,11 @@ public final class plasmaHTCache {
 	    // -expires in cached response
 	    // the expires value gives us a very easy hint when the cache is stale
 	    if (expires != null) {
-		Date yesterday = new Date((new Date()).getTime() - oneday);
-		if (expires.before(yesterday)) return false;
+		//Date yesterday = new Date((new Date()).getTime() - oneday);
+                //long now = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+0")).getTimeInMillis();
+                //System.out.println("EXPIRES-TEST: expires=" + expires.getTime()) + ", NOW=" + now + ", System.currentTimeMillis=" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ", url=" + url);
+                System.out.println("EXPIRES-TEST: expires=" + expires + ", NOW=" + serverDate.correctedGMTDate() + ", url=" + url);
+		if (expires.before(serverDate.correctedGMTDate())) return false;
 	    }
 	    
 	    // -lastModified in cached response
@@ -731,4 +738,21 @@ public final class plasmaHTCache {
         
     }
     
+    /*
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        //String[] s = TimeZone.getAvailableIDs();
+        //for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) System.out.println("ZONE=" + s[i]);
+        Calendar c = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
+        int zoneOffset = c.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET)/(60*60*1000);
+        int DSTOffset = c.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET)/(60*60*1000);
+        System.out.println("This Offset = " + (zoneOffset + DSTOffset));
+        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
+            c = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT-" + i));
+            //c.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT+0"));
+            System.out.println("Zone offset: "+
+                     c.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET)/(60*60*1000));
+            System.out.println(c.get(GregorianCalendar.HOUR) + ", " + c.getTime() + ", " + c.getTimeInMillis());
+        }
+    }
+     **/
 }
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/server/serverDate.java b/source/de/anomic/server/serverDate.java
index c53684400..0d70dbd69 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/server/serverDate.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/server/serverDate.java
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ public final class serverDate {
     private final static String[] wkday = {"Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat","Sun"};
     private final static String[] month = {"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"};
 
+    // find out time zone and DST offset
+    private static Calendar thisCalendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
+    private static long zoneOffsetHours = thisCalendar.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET);
+    private static long DSTOffsetHours = thisCalendar.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);
+    private static long offsetHours = zoneOffsetHours + DSTOffsetHours; // this must be subtracted from current Date().getTime() to produce a GMT Time
+
     // pre-calculation of time tables
     private final static long[] dimnormalacc, dimleapacc;
     private static long[] utimeyearsacc;
@@ -96,6 +102,10 @@ public final class serverDate {
     private int milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years; // years since 1970
     private int dow; // day-of-week
     private long utime;
+
+    public static Date correctedGMTDate() {
+        return new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() - offsetHours);
+    }
     
     public serverDate() {
         this(System.currentTimeMillis());
@@ -253,6 +263,7 @@ public final class serverDate {
         
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         //System.out.println("kelondroDate is (" + new kelondroDate().toString() + ")");
+        System.out.println("offset is " + (offsetHours/1000/60/60/24) + " hours, javaDate is " + new Date() + ", correctedDate is " + correctedGMTDate());
         System.out.println("serverDate : " + new serverDate().toShortString(false));
         System.out.println("  javaDate : " + testSDateShortString());
         System.out.println("serverDate : " + new serverDate().toString());
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
index db4d51028..78d60bcbf 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public class yacyCore {
     }
 
     public static Date parseUniversalDate(String remoteTimeString) {
-        if (remoteTimeString == null) return new Date();
+        if ((remoteTimeString == null) || (remoteTimeString.length() == 0)) return new Date();
         try {
             return yacyCore.shortFormatter.parse(remoteTimeString);
         } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
index 1d1cf02ba..24172bc4b 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ public class yacyNewsPool {
             return true;
         }
         if ((record.category().equals("crwlstrt")) &&
-            (yacyCore.universalTime() - record.created().getTime() > 1000 * 60 * 60 /* 1 Hour */)) {
+            (yacyCore.universalTime() - record.created().getTime() > 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 /* 1 Week */)) {
             yacySeed seed = yacyCore.seedDB.get(record.originator());
             try {
                 return (Integer.parseInt(seed.get("ISpeed", "-")) < 10);