timelib is a short wrapper around a bundled copy of PHP's internal timelib module. >>> import time, timelib >>> timelib.strtodatetime('today'.encode('utf-8')) datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 4, 0, 0) >>> timelib.strtodatetime('next friday'.encode('utf-8')) datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 7, 0, 0) >>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("29 feb 2008 -108 years".encode('utf-8'))) 'Thu Mar 1 00:00:00 1900'