Add strptime() constructor to datetime class.  Thanks to Josh Spoerri for
the changes.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a582d90..3c192ad 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@
 Paul Sokolovsky
 Clay Spence
 Per Spilling
+Joshua Spoerri
 Noah Spurrier
 Oliver Steele
 Greg Stein
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 26edc89..5ad39e2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
   This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
       islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
 
+- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
+  create datetime object using a string and format.
 
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