From e16948dbeb702fd46ccca1f20c0a869ca05fb814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Campagnola <lukec@alleninstitute.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:57:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add datetime support to configfile

---
 pyqtgraph/configfile.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyqtgraph/configfile.py b/pyqtgraph/configfile.py
index 7b20db1d..e7056599 100644
--- a/pyqtgraph/configfile.py
+++ b/pyqtgraph/configfile.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ file format. Data structures may be nested and contain any data type as long
 as it can be converted to/from a string using repr and eval.
 """
 
-import re, os, sys
+import re, os, sys, datetime
 import numpy
 from .pgcollections import OrderedDict
 from . import units
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ def parseString(lines, start=0):
             local['Point'] = Point
             local['QtCore'] = QtCore
             local['ColorMap'] = ColorMap
+            local['datetime'] = datetime
             # Needed for reconstructing numpy arrays
             local['array'] = numpy.array
             for dtype in ['int8', 'uint8',