From bf50b0383e4d6728bbbf1d0ee70cf586a90efb40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
 <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:14:20 +0200
Subject: Fix some IEs that didn't return the uploade_date in the YYYYMMDD
 format

Create a function unified_strdate in utils.py to fix these problems
---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'youtube_dl/utils.py')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index e5d756b8b..3a2f0022f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -569,7 +569,22 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
 
     https_request = http_request
     https_response = http_response
-    
+
+def unified_strdate(date_str):
+    """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
+    upload_date = None
+    #Replace commas
+    date_str = date_str.replace(',',' ')
+    # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
+    date_str = re.sub(r' (\+|-)[\d]*$', '', date_str)
+    format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S']
+    for expression in format_expressions:
+        try:
+            upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
+        except:
+            pass
+    return upload_date
+
 def date_from_str(date_str):
     """Return a datetime object from a string in the format YYYYMMDD"""
     return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y%m%d").date()
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