diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0f69bc88..88c1bc71 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ flask-babel
 grequests
 lxml
 pyyaml
+python-dateutil
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_news.py b/searx/engines/google_news.py
index 43ccaa3e..b8a7be3e 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_news.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from urllib import urlencode
 from json import loads
+from dateutil import parser
 from datetime import datetime
 
 categories = ['news']
@@ -32,16 +33,9 @@ def response(resp):
         return []
 
     for result in search_res['responseData']['results']:
-# S.149 (159), library.pdf
-# datetime.strptime("Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:26:15 -0700",
-#                   "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
-#        publishedDate = parse(result['publishedDate'])
-        publishedDate = datetime.strptime(
-            str.join(' ', result['publishedDate'].split(None)[0:5]),
-            "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")
-        #utc_offset = timedelta(result['publishedDate'].split(None)[5])
-        # local = utc + offset
-        #publishedDate = publishedDate + utc_offset
+
+# Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:26:15 -0700
+        publishedDate = parser.parse(result['publishedDate'])
 
         results.append({'url': result['unescapedUrl'],
                         'title': result['titleNoFormatting'],
diff --git a/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py b/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
index a1e9df59..53c8b07a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text, extract_url
 from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import re
+from dateutil import parser
 
 categories = ['news']
 search_url = 'http://news.search.yahoo.com/search?{query}&b={offset}'
@@ -52,9 +53,7 @@ def response(resp):
                     - timedelta(hours=int(timeNumbers[0]))\
                     - timedelta(minutes=int(timeNumbers[1]))
             else:
-                # TODO year in string possible?
-                publishedDate = datetime.strptime(publishedDate,
-                                                  "%b %d %H:%M%p")
+                publishedDate =parser.parse(publishedDate)
 
         if publishedDate.year == 1900:
             publishedDate = publishedDate.replace(year=datetime.now().year)
diff --git a/searx/engines/youtube.py b/searx/engines/youtube.py
index 5b04f351..f6b08b33 100644
--- a/searx/engines/youtube.py
+++ b/searx/engines/youtube.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from json import loads
 from urllib import urlencode
+from dateutil import parser
+from datetime import datetime
 
 categories = ['videos']
 
@@ -35,6 +37,10 @@ def response(resp):
         content = ''
         thumbnail = ''
 
+#"2013-12-31T15:22:51.000Z"
+        pubdate = result['published']['$t']
+        publishedDate = parser.parse(pubdate)
+
         if result['media$group']['media$thumbnail']:
             thumbnail = result['media$group']['media$thumbnail'][0]['url']
             content += '<a href="{0}" title="{0}" ><img src="{1}" /></a>'.format(url, thumbnail)  # noqa
@@ -48,6 +54,7 @@ def response(resp):
                         'title': title,
                         'content': content,
                         'template': 'videos.html',
+                        'publishedDate': publishedDate,
                         'thumbnail': thumbnail})
 
     return results
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fff709f2..79f2acc4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ setup(
         'lxml',
         'pyyaml',
         'setuptools',
+        'python-dateutil',
     ],
     extras_require={
         'test': [