# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2017-05-05 23:21:25
# Node ID 2959c3e986e0840b383202c8e0785805f68d086f
# Parent  770bbfdc9644b7261bf2c2c28300f19c2c61176e

py3: convert date and format arguments str before passing in time.strptime

time.strptime() raises ValueError if the arguments are not str.
Source Code: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.5/Lib/_strptime.py#l307

diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -1937,7 +1937,8 @@ def strdate(string, format, defaults=Non
             # elements are relative to today
             usenow = True
 
-    timetuple = time.strptime(date, format)
+    timetuple = time.strptime(encoding.strfromlocal(date),
+                              encoding.strfromlocal(format))
     localunixtime = int(calendar.timegm(timetuple))
     if offset is None:
         # local timezone