From adf6728f142378d1b3b2c81acae21d02858d6de3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wulf Rajek <40003252+AnonTester@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:22:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Gracefully deal with incorrect dates

---
 cps/editbooks.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cps/editbooks.py b/cps/editbooks.py
index db87d891..b14f79e0 100755
--- a/cps/editbooks.py
+++ b/cps/editbooks.py
@@ -983,9 +983,9 @@ def create_book_on_upload(modify_date, meta):
     # combine path and normalize path from Windows systems
     path = os.path.join(author_dir, title_dir).replace('\\', '/')
 
-    if meta.pubdate != "":
+    try:
         pubdate = datetime.strptime(meta.pubdate[:10], "%Y-%m-%d")
-    else:
+    except:
         pubdate = datetime(101, 1, 1)
 
     # Calibre adds books with utc as timezone