diff --git a/recipes/boston.com.recipe b/recipes/boston.com.recipe
index 3908bd9bd7..47f730a967 100644
--- a/recipes/boston.com.recipe
+++ b/recipes/boston.com.recipe
@@ -5,10 +5,16 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
 import json
 import pprint
+from datetime import timedelta
+from calibre.utils.date import utcnow
+from calibre.utils.iso8601 import parse_iso8601
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 
+oldest_article = 1  # days, includes articles that were published no more than the specified number of days ago
+
+
 def classes(classes):
     q = frozenset(classes.split(' '))
     return dict(attrs={
@@ -80,6 +86,8 @@ def absolutize_url(url):
 
 def parse_section(raw_html):
     data = extract_json(raw_html)['content-feed']
+    now = utcnow()
+    cutoff_date = now - timedelta(days=oldest_article)
 
     def text(e):
         if not e:
@@ -88,10 +96,13 @@ def parse_section(raw_html):
 
     for group in data.values():
         for elem in group['data']['content_elements']:
+            date = parse_iso8601(elem['publish_date'])
+            if date < cutoff_date:
+                continue
             title = text(elem['headlines'])
             description = text(elem.get('description'))
             url = absolutize_url(elem['canonical_url'])
-            yield {'title': title, 'url': url, 'description': description}
+            yield {'title': title, 'url': url, 'description': description, 'date': ' '  + str(date.date())}
 
 
 def main():