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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2014-02-09 18:09:57 +0100
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2014-02-09 18:09:57 +0100
commit026fcc04956f2077a50cd4b4e9b87f45d2bcddea (patch)
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Fix #2355 (date parsing with dashes)
-rw-r--r--test/test_utils.py1
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index c68e0e968..97c408ebf 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(unified_strdate('8/7/2009'), '20090708')
         self.assertEqual(unified_strdate('Dec 14, 2012'), '20121214')
         self.assertEqual(unified_strdate('2012/10/11 01:56:38 +0000'), '20121011')
+        self.assertEqual(unified_strdate('1968-12-10'), '19681210')
 
     def test_find_xpath_attr(self):
         testxml = u'''<root>
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index fa8f80e02..67c6af507 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -756,9 +756,9 @@ def unified_strdate(date_str):
     """Return a string with the date in the format YYYYMMDD"""
     upload_date = None
     #Replace commas
-    date_str = date_str.replace(',',' ')
+    date_str = date_str.replace(',', ' ')
     # %z (UTC offset) is only supported in python>=3.2
-    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9:]*$', '', date_str)
+    date_str = re.sub(r' ?(\+|-)[0-9]{2}:?[0-9]{2}$', '', date_str)
     format_expressions = [
         '%d %B %Y',
         '%B %d %Y',