title: Scrapy parse date in webpage
body: <p>I parsed the date in a webpage:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="solliciteren-voor"&gt;
  &lt;span class="label"&gt;Apply no later than : 
  &lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span&gt;September 30, 2017
  &lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>using: </p>
  
  <pre><code>response.xpath('//div[@class="solliciteren-voor"]//span/text()').extract()[1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, the result was: "30/09/2017", not expected "September 30, 2017"</p>
  
  <p>How did this happened? Will the scrapy automatically transfer the date into a specific format? How do we control this?</p>