# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
# Date 2019-12-26 15:07:36
# Node ID ed08a2117d8f7ce5025a2677bcb84e81d5c61d52
# Parent  1522a33ac21f154f76802acc054d5ac0b32fe339

helpers: drop fmt_date iso8601 decoding to unicode - it will always be str

diff --git a/kallithea/lib/helpers.py b/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
--- a/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
+++ b/kallithea/lib/helpers.py
@@ -515,8 +515,7 @@ def show_id(cs):
 
 def fmt_date(date):
     if date:
-        return date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").decode('utf-8')
-
+        return date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
     return ""