def toDate(date): import time,datetime dates = time.strptime(date,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y") dt = datetime.datetime(dates[0],dates[1],dates[2],dates[3],dates[4],dates[5],dates[6])+datetime.timedelta(hours=9) return dt if __name__ == "__main__": import datetime date = "Sat Dec 22 01:07:16 +0000 2007" print toDate(date) print datetime.datetime.today()