diff --git a/xsl/date.xsl b/xsl/date.xsl
index da265dc3c..7164b7202 100644
--- a/xsl/date.xsl
+++ b/xsl/date.xsl
@@ -386,4 +386,19 @@
   <xsl:value-of select="date:year($date)"/><xsl:value-of select="$month_in_year"/><xsl:value-of select="$day_in_month"/><xsl:if test="date:hour-in-day($date)">T<xsl:value-of select="$hour_in_day"/><xsl:value-of select="$minute_in_hour"/><xsl:value-of select="$second_in_minute"/></xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>
 
+<!-- Geklaut von:
+      http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/03/03/xslt-cookbook-generating-an-rfc-822-date/
+      TODO: Zeitzone stimmt sicher nicht...
+  -->
+<xsl:template name="date-to-rfc822">
+  <xsl:param name="date"/>
+
+  <xsl:value-of select="concat(date:day-abbreviation($date), ', ',
+  format-number(date:day-in-month($date), '00'), ' ',
+  date:month-abbreviation($date), ' ', date:year($date), ' ',
+  format-number(date:hour-in-day($date), '00'), ':',
+  format-number(date:minute-in-hour($date), '00'), ':',
+  format-number(date:second-in-minute($date), '00'), ' GMT')"/>
+</xsl:template>
+
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/xsl/rss.xsl b/xsl/rss.xsl
index 0885bfce8..ecf0a7f47 100644
--- a/xsl/rss.xsl
+++ b/xsl/rss.xsl
@@ -38,11 +38,15 @@
     <xsl:param name="newsfile"/>
     <item>
       <title><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></title>
-      <link><xsl:value-of select="$baseurl"/><xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($newsfile, 'content/'), '.xml')"/>.html</link>
       <description><xsl:apply-templates mode="escaped"/></description>
+      <link><xsl:value-of select="$baseurl"/><xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($newsfile, 'content/'), '.xml')"/>.html</link>
       <author><xsl:value-of select="@author"/></author>
       <category><xsl:value-of select="@category"/></category>
-      <pubDate><xsl:value-of select="@date"/></pubDate>
+      <pubDate>
+        <xsl:call-template name="date-to-rfc822">
+          <xsl:with-param name="date" select="@date"/>
+        </xsl:call-template>
+      </pubDate>
       <!--
         TODO:
         Jemand mit iTunes (erhältlich für OSX und Windows)
@@ -77,10 +81,15 @@
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="link" mode="escaped">
-    &lt;a <xsl:choose>
-        <xsl:when test="@href">href="<xsl:value-of select="@href"/>"</xsl:when>
-        <xsl:otherwise>href="<xsl:value-of select="."/>"</xsl:otherwise>
-      </xsl:choose>&gt;<xsl:apply-templates mode="escaped"/>&lt;/a&gt;
+    <xsl:variable name="href"><xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="@href"><xsl:value-of select="@href"/></xsl:when>
+      <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose></xsl:variable>
+
+    &lt;a href="<xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="contains($href, '://')"><xsl:value-of select="$href"/></xsl:when>
+      <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="concat($baseurl, $href)"/></xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose>"&gt;<xsl:apply-templates mode="escaped"/>&lt;/a&gt;
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="resource" mode="escaped"/>