Fix #2355 (date parsing with dashes)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index fa8f80e024c40f4c2676a86971b790ee47484973..67c6af5070bbe214221b288649049913bfccadf5 100644 (file)
--- 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',