From cc2757ebd8afc88c1fc7f4d03a8471de27cab0a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:11:36 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 recipes/wsj.recipe      | 2 +-
 recipes/wsj_free.recipe | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/recipes/wsj.recipe b/recipes/wsj.recipe
index 64bc41ab24..169f1afff7 100644
--- a/recipes/wsj.recipe
+++ b/recipes/wsj.recipe
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ class WSJ(BasicNewsRecipe):
         # return self.test_wsj_index()
         root = self.index_to_soup(self.wsj_itp_page, as_tree=True)
         for span in CSSSelect('span.date-date')(root):
-            if span.text:
+            if span.text and span.text.strip():
                 self.timefmt = span.text
                 break
         for a in CSSSelect('div.itpSectionHeaderPdf a[href]')(root):
diff --git a/recipes/wsj_free.recipe b/recipes/wsj_free.recipe
index cefe94e61c..d78f91130f 100644
--- a/recipes/wsj_free.recipe
+++ b/recipes/wsj_free.recipe
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class WSJ(BasicNewsRecipe):
         # return self.test_wsj_index()
         root = self.index_to_soup(self.wsj_itp_page, as_tree=True)
         for span in CSSSelect('span.date-date')(root):
-            if span.text:
+            if span.text and span.text.strip():
                 self.timefmt = span.text
                 break
         for a in CSSSelect('div.itpSectionHeaderPdf a[href]')(root):