When I import nodes with custom date format "U", some dates are interpreted as DATE_ISO. I think there is a bug in node_import.inc
Attached a patch that solves the problem.
This is related with http://drupal.org/node/424668#comment-1442390 and #1094694: Imported year is always 1970

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node_import.inc_.patch558 bytesjotarp