diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0f69bc883..88c1bc715 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 43ccaa3e3..b8a7be3ee 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/vimeo.py b/searx/engines/vimeo.py
index a95c75b49..d2d2a4dd0 100644
--- a/searx/engines/vimeo.py
+++ b/searx/engines/vimeo.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ from urllib import urlencode
 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 from lxml import html
 from xpath import extract_text
+from datetime import datetime
+from dateutil import parser
 
 base_url = 'http://vimeo.com'
 search_url = base_url + '/search?{query}'
@@ -10,6 +12,7 @@ content_xpath = None
 title_xpath = None
 results_xpath = ''
 content_tpl = '<a href="{0}">  <img src="{2}"/> </a>'
+publishedDate_xpath = './/p[@class="meta"]//attribute::datetime'
 
 # the cookie set by vimeo contains all the following values,
 # but only __utma seems to be requiered
@@ -40,9 +43,12 @@ def response(resp):
         url = base_url + result.xpath(url_xpath)[0]
         title = p.unescape(extract_text(result.xpath(title_xpath)))
         thumbnail = extract_text(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0])
+        publishedDate = parser.parse(extract_text(result.xpath(publishedDate_xpath)[0]))
+
         results.append({'url': url,
                         'title': title,
                         'content': content_tpl.format(url, title, thumbnail),
                         'template': 'videos.html',
+                        'publishedDate': publishedDate,
                         'thumbnail': thumbnail})
     return results
diff --git a/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py b/searx/engines/yahoo_news.py
index a1e9df59c..43da93ede 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 5b04f3513..f6b08b330 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/searx/templates/opensearch_response_rss.xml b/searx/templates/opensearch_response_rss.xml
index 417b195a3..5673eb2e1 100644
--- a/searx/templates/opensearch_response_rss.xml
+++ b/searx/templates/opensearch_response_rss.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
       <title>{{ r.title }}</title>
       <link>{{ r.url }}</link>
       <description>{{ r.content }}</description>
+      {% if r.pubdate %}<pubDate>{{ r.pubdate }}</pubDate>{% endif %}
     </item>
     {% endfor %}
   </channel>
diff --git a/searx/templates/result_templates/videos.html b/searx/templates/result_templates/videos.html
index d3391f0d3..ab869a6eb 100644
--- a/searx/templates/result_templates/videos.html
+++ b/searx/templates/result_templates/videos.html
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
     <p>
       <h3 class="result_title"><a href="{{ result.url }}">{{ result.title|safe }}</a></h3>
+      {% if result.publishedDate %}<p class="published_date">{{ result.publishedDate }}</p>{% endif %}
       <a href="{{ result.url }}"><img width="400px" src="{{ result.thumbnail }}" title={{ result.title }} alt=" {{ result.title }}"/></a>
       <p class="url">{{ result.url }}</p>
     </p>
diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index 28d046cd8..44865345a 100644
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ def index():
 
         # TODO, check if timezone is calculated right
         if 'publishedDate' in result:
-            if result['publishedDate'] >= datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1):
-                timedifference = datetime.now() - result['publishedDate']
+            if result['publishedDate'].replace(tzinfo=None) >= datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1):
+                timedifference = datetime.now() - result['publishedDate'].replace(tzinfo=None)
                 minutes = int((timedifference.seconds / 60) % 60)
                 hours = int(timedifference.seconds / 60 / 60)
                 if hours == 0:
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ def index():
                 else:
                     result['publishedDate'] = gettext(u'{hours} hour(s), {minutes} minute(s) ago').format(hours=hours, minutes=minutes)  # noqa
             else:
+                result['pubdate'] = result['publishedDate'].strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z')
                 result['publishedDate'] = format_date(result['publishedDate'])
 
     if search.request_data.get('format') == 'json':
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fff709f2f..79f2acc42 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ setup(
         'lxml',
         'pyyaml',
         'setuptools',
+        'python-dateutil',
     ],
     extras_require={
         'test': [