Downloading Podcast on iPhone iOS 5.0 No Longer Shows Date In Music App
I think this is a bug in the Music or iTunes app on iOS 5. Something doesn't seem to store the date properly on podcasts downloaded on the phone, they don't show up in the app and if you transfer them back to your computer, iTunes shows the date as Dec 31, 2000 or something nonsensical.

Podcasts I download in iTunes on my Mac and then sync to my iPhone show the date fine.