From b096c81588dadddfeee38445aaf24a88b2a0f871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damon McDougall <damon.mcdougall@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 20:54:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add dateutil kwargs to csv2rec

Fixes ambiguous date problems between US/UK date conventions.
---
 lib/matplotlib/mlab.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
index 274023c8ccc2..5b3fd8f8d354 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ def extract(r):
 
 def csv2rec(fname, comments='#', skiprows=0, checkrows=0, delimiter=',',
             converterd=None, names=None, missing='', missingd=None,
-            use_mrecords=False):
+            use_mrecords=False, dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False):
     """
     Load data from comma/space/tab delimited file in *fname* into a
     numpy record array and return the record array.
@@ -2216,7 +2216,7 @@ def mybool(x):
 
     def mydate(x):
         # try and return a date object
-        d = dateparser(x)
+        d = dateparser(x, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst)
 
         if d.hour>0 or d.minute>0 or d.second>0:
             raise ValueError('not a date')

From 227c10b908222a55ef71af6c3225667b9ee627f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damon McDougall <damon.mcdougall@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:30:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add documentation for new csv2rec dateutil kwwargs

---
 lib/matplotlib/mlab.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
index 5b3fd8f8d354..dfcddca18717 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
@@ -2129,6 +2129,14 @@ def csv2rec(fname, comments='#', skiprows=0, checkrows=0, delimiter=',',
 
     - *use_mrecords*: if True, return an mrecords.fromrecords record array if any of the data are missing
 
+    - *dayfirst*: default is False so that MM-DD-YY has precedence over
+      DD-MM-YY.  See http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-b95ce2094d189a89f80f5ae52a05b4ab7b41af47
+      for further information.
+
+    - *yearfirst*: default is False so that MM-DD-YY has precedence over
+      YY-MM-DD.  See http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-b95ce2094d189a89f80f5ae52a05b4ab7b41af47
+      for further information.
+
       If no rows are found, *None* is returned -- see :file:`examples/loadrec.py`
     """