title: Parsing date from string using dateutil parser
body: <p>I am trying to parse date which have string format as</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>u'June 11, 2015 - 12:26 hrs IST'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>but when I am using dateutil parser to parse I am getting error.</p>
  
  <pre><code> from dateutil.parser import parse
   parse("u'June 11, 2015 - 12:26 hrs IST'")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the error traceback.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;console&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/Users/rranjan/.virtualenvs/crawler/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 982, in parse
      return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
    File "/Users/rranjan/.virtualenvs/crawler/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 390, in parse
      raise ValueError("Unknown string format")
  ValueError: Unknown string format
  </code></pre>