John,
Take a look here
http://5pieces.com/sandbox/magpie-test/
The only way that dates would not show on this page was if I had PHP turned off for that particular template
Can you do the same as me and add this to 1 template only, switch on PHP and set to output. Just add what I have and nothing else and give us the link please
<h1>Magpie RSS Parser (v.1.4)</h1>
<h2><a href="http://peltiertech.com">http://peltiertech.com</a></h2>
<p>{exp:magpie url="http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/label-totals-on-stacked-charts/feed/" limit="5" refresh="720"}<br />
<table class="siteindex" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="hed">Posted</td><br />
<td class="hed">Recent Entries</td><br />
{magpie:items}<br />
</tr><br />
<td width="15%" valign="top"><?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('{pubdate}')); ?></td><br />
<td width="85%" valign="top"><a href="http://{magpie:link}">{magpie:title}</a></td><br />
</tr><br />
{/magpie:items}<br />
</table><br />
{/exp:magpie} <br />
<hr></p><h2><a href="http://www.contextures.com">http://www.contextures.com</a></h2>
<p>{exp:magpie url="http://www.contextures.com/feed.xml" limit="5" refresh="720"}<br />
<table class="siteindex" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="hed">Posted</td><br />
<td class="hed">Recent Entries</td><br />
{magpie:items}<br />
</tr><br />
<td width="15%" valign="top"><?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('{pubdate}')); ?> </td><br />
<td width="85%" valign="top"><a href="http://{magpie:link}">{magpie:title}</a></td><br />
</tr><br />
{/magpie:items}<br />
</table><br />
{/exp:magpie}<br />
<hr></p><h2>cellmatrix</h2>
<p>{exp:magpie url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/cellmatrix/excelblog/" limit="5" refresh="720"}<br />
<table class="siteindex" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="hed">Posted</td><br />
<td class="hed">Recent Entries</td><br />
{magpie:items}<br />
</tr><br />
<td width="15%" valign="top"><?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('{magpie:date}')); ?></td><br />
<td width="85%" valign="top"><a href="http://{magpie:link}">{magpie:title}</a></td><br />
</tr><br />
{/magpie:items}<br />
</table><br />
{/exp:magpie}<br />
<hr></p><h2><a href="http://expressionengine.com/">http://expressionengine.com/</a></h2>
<p>{exp:magpie url="http://expressionengine.com/feeds/rss/full/" limit="5" refresh="720"}<br />
<table class="siteindex" cellspacing="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td class="hed">Posted</td><br />
<td class="hed">Recent Entries</td><br />
{magpie:items}<br />
</tr><br />
<td width="15%" valign="top"><?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('{pubdate}')); ?> </td><br />
<td width="85%" valign="top"><a href="http://{magpie:link}">{magpie:title}</a></td><br />
</tr><br />
{/magpie:items}<br />
</table><br />
{/exp:magpie}