[issue15873] datetime: add ability to parse RFC 3339 dates and times

[karl]

karl added the comment:

I had the issue today. I needed to parse a date with the following format.

    2014-04-04T23:59:00+09:00

and could not with strptime.

I see a discussion in March 2014 http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-ideas/26883/ but no followup. 

For references:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339

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