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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+import sys
+import re
+import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt
+#import parsedatetime.parsedatetime_consts as pdc
+import datetime
+
+# Define Globals
+pyDate = os.getenv('KMVAR_myDate')
+
+# Function for parsing a string and returning a datetime value
+def datetimeFromString( s ):
+    #c = pdc.Constants()
+    p = pdt.Calendar()
+    result, what = p.parse( s )
+    dt = 0
+    # See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1810432/handling-the-different-results-from-parsedatetime
+    # what was returned (see http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/docs/)
+    # 0 = failed to parse
+    # 1 = date (with current time, as a struct_time)
+    # 2 = time (with current date, as a struct_time)
+    # 3 = datetime
+    if what in (1,2,3):
+        # result is struct_time
+        dt = datetime.datetime( *result[:6] )
+    if what == 0:
+        # Failed to parse
+        raise ValueError, ("Don't understand date '"+s+"'")
+        dt = "Unrecognized Date"
+    return dt
+NLPDate = datetimeFromString(pyDate)
+print NLPDate