title: Not able to change a date of my Picasa Web Albums album via Python API
body: <p>I am not able to change a date of my <em>Picasa Web Albums</em> album via Python API. Spent many hours with that and I am hopeless now. Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code># set values
  remote_album.timestamp.text = str(get_published_as_timestamp())
  remote_album.published.text = published + 'T04:01:01.000Z'
  
  # test before
  print remote_album.published
  print remote_album.published.text
  print remote_album.timestamp.text
  
  # save it remotely
  remote_album = picasa.Put(remote_album, remote_album.GetEditLink().href, converter=gdata.photos.AlbumEntryFromString)
  
  # test after
  print remote_album.published.text
  print remote_album.timestamp.text
  
  # :'-(
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Output is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;ns0:published xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"&gt;2010-12-24T04:01:01.000Z&lt;/ns0:published&gt;
  2010-12-24T04:01:01.000Z
  1293148000
  1970-01-15T23:12:28.000Z
  1293148000
  </code></pre>