## Parse HTTP date-time string  
Originally published: 2010-01-20 13:47:50  
Last updated: 2010-01-20 13:47:50  
Author: Sridhar Ratnakumar  
  
This recipe will help you parse datetime strings returned by HTTP servers following the RFC 2616 standard (which [supports three datetime formats](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.3)).  Credit for this recipe goes to [ΤΖΩΤΖΙΟΥ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1471987/how-do-i-parse-an-http-date-string-in-python/1472336#1472336).