diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a8fd1b8..d62c96cd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -42,3 +42,6 @@ obj
 # virtaulenv
 env/
 env*/
+
+#random extras
+extras/
diff --git a/parse-date-test.py b/parse-date-test.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ff9e42e..00000000
--- a/parse-date-test.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-"""Parses a string containing a fuzzy date and returns a datetime.datetime object"""
-
-from datetime import datetime
-import dateutil
-import argparse
-try: import parsedatetime.parsedatetime_consts as pdt
-except ImportError: import parsedatetime as pdt
-
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-parser.add_argument('-i', default='today')
-parser.add_argument('-f', default=None)
-args = parser.parse_args()
-print "args: " + str(args)
-date_str = args.i
-end_flag = args.f
-
-# Set up date parser
-consts = pdt.Constants(usePyICU=False)
-consts.DOWParseStyle = -1  # "Monday" will be either today or the last Monday
-dateparse = pdt.Calendar(consts)
-
-if not date_str:
-    print "Nothing supplied"
-    # return None
-elif isinstance(date_str, datetime):
-    print date_str
-    # return date_str
-
-try:
-    date = dateutil.parser.parse(date_str)
-    flag = 1 if date.hour == 0 and date.minute == 0 else 2
-    date = date.timetuple()
-except:
-    date, flag = dateparse.parse(date_str)
-
-if not flag:  # Oops, unparsable.
-    try:  # Try and parse this as a single year
-        year = int(date_str)
-        print datetime(year, 1, 1)
-        # return datetime(year, 1, 1)
-    except ValueError:
-        print "return None"
-        # return None
-    except TypeError:
-        print "return None"
-        # return None
-
-if flag is 1:  # Date found, but no time. Use the default time.
-    if end_flag == "from":
-        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=0, minute=0)
-    elif end_flag == "to":
-        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=23, minute=59, second=59)
-    else:
-        # Use the default time.
-        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=9, minute=1)
-else:
-    date = datetime(*date[:6])
-
-# Ugly heuristic: if the date is more than 4 weeks in the future, we got the year wrong.
-# Rather then this, we would like to see parsedatetime patched so we can tell it to prefer
-# past dates
-dt = datetime.now() - date
-if dt.days < -28:
-    date = date.replace(date.year - 1)
-
-print date
-# return date
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