From ae12bc3ebb4cb377c2b4337ec255e652b36f5143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:07:37 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Make unified_strdate always return unicode string

---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 89c88a4d30..764a89ccac 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ def unified_strdate(date_str, day_first=True):
         timetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(date_str)
         if timetuple:
             upload_date = datetime.datetime(*timetuple[:6]).strftime('%Y%m%d')
-    return upload_date
+    return compat_str(upload_date)
 
 
 def determine_ext(url, default_ext='unknown_video'):