function my_parse_date ($date)
{
$month_arr = array (
    "january" => 1,
    "february" => 2,
    "march" => 3,
    "april" => 4,
    "may" => 5,
    "june" => 6,
    "july" => 7,
    "august" => 8,
    "september" => 9,
    "october" => 10,
    "november" => 11,
    "december" => 12,
    "januari" => 1,
    "februari" => 2,
    "maart" => 3,
    "mei" => 5,
    "juni" => 6,
    "juli" => 7,
    "augustus" => 8,
    "oktober" => 10
);
sscanf ($date, "%d", $v);
#echo "V= $v\n";
if ($v > 1) return $date;
$date = strtolower ($date);
if (preg_match('/([a-zA-Z]{3,9}) ([0-9]{1,2})[sth]*, ([0-9]{4})/', 
                $date, $matches2) == 1) {
   #echo "engelse datum:  $matches2[3] . $matches2[2]. $matches2[1] \n" ;
   return  sprintf ("'%04d-%02d-%02d'", 
                $matches2[3], $month_arr[$matches2[1]], $matches2[2]);
   }
if (preg_match('/([0-9]{1,2}) ([a-z]{3,9}) ([0-9]{4})/', 
                $date, $matches2) == 1) {
   #echo "nl datum:  $matches2[3] . $matches2[2]. $matches2[1] \n" ;
   #echo "returning: ".  sprintf ("%04d-%02d-%02d",
                #$matches2[3], $month_arr[$matches2[2]], $matches2[1]) .  "\n" ;
   return  sprintf ("'%04d-%02d-%02d'", 
                $matches2[3], $month_arr[$matches2[2]], $matches2[1]);
   }
   #echo "snap niet:  $matches2[3] . $matches2[2]. $matches2[1] \n" ;

return $date;
}