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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()