From 128d9429fab830dad69243cbf9e6b6af5c3ed258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <valhalla@trueelena.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:58:50 +0200
Subject: Let the parsing of dates happen earlier to give better error messages

---
 debdate | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debdate b/debdate
index fbb9a30..a564939 100755
--- a/debdate
+++ b/debdate
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ class Command:
         self.date_options.add_argument(
             '-d', '--date',
             help='A gregorian date',
-            default='',
+            default=None,
+            type=parser.parse,
             )
         self.date_options.add_argument(
             '-s', '--seconds',
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ class Command:
 
     def print_date(self, args):
         if args.date:
-            date = parser.parse(args.date).date()
+            date = args.date.date()
         elif args.seconds:
             date = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(args.seconds)
         else:
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