From 7842e2e5ffa6b7054df72dcd41013d272d21b31c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Abels <knipknap@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:16:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] forgot to add file in the last commit

---
 django_find/serializers/util.py | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 django_find/serializers/util.py

diff --git a/django_find/serializers/util.py b/django_find/serializers/util.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c37a08e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_find/serializers/util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from dateparser import parse
+
+DATEPARSER_SETTING = {
+    'TIMEZONE': 'UTC',
+    'STRICT_PARSING': True
+}
+
+def parse_date(thedate):
+    thedatetime = parse(thedate)
+    if not thedatetime:
+        return None
+    return thedatetime.date()
+
+def parse_datetime(thedate):
+    return parse(thedate)