Converting strings to dates

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py>  import time
py> date_str = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', time.localtime())
py> date_str
'2005-02-04'
py> time.strptime(date_str, '%Y-%m-%d')
(2005, 2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 4, 35, -1)

That work?