From 831034eb3bde62034ef41d74ad1dcdab59d81a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@quantopian.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:44:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused ISO 8601 stuff from Zipline

---
 README.md                   |  1 -
 zipline/utils/date_utils.py | 14 --------------
 2 files changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 73809247..b9bf1776 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ Dependencies
 * pandas (>= 0.9.0)
 * pytz
 * msgpack-python
-* iso8601
 * Logbook
 * blist
 
diff --git a/zipline/utils/date_utils.py b/zipline/utils/date_utils.py
index 877b0a5b..4b759d1a 100644
--- a/zipline/utils/date_utils.py
+++ b/zipline/utils/date_utils.py
@@ -15,18 +15,9 @@
 
 
 import pytz
-import iso8601
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 
-# iso8061 utility
-# ---------------------
-def parse_iso8061(date_string):
-    dt = iso8601.parse_date(date_string)
-    dt = dt.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)
-    return dt
-
-
 # Epoch utilities
 # ---------------------
 UNIX_EPOCH = datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=pytz.utc)
@@ -64,11 +55,6 @@ def UN_EPOCH(ms_since_epoch):
     return dt
 
 
-def iso8061_to_epoch(datestring):
-    dt = parse_iso8061(datestring)
-    return EPOCH(dt)
-
-
 def epoch_now():
     dt = utcnow()
     return EPOCH(dt)