diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
index f7dd3a6b..a12f41a7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class FimFictionNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
 
         # The date format will vary from site to site.
         # http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior
+        # FYI, not the only format used in this file.
         self.dateformat = "%d %b %Y"
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ class FimFictionNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
             span = containingtag.find('span', title=True)
             dateRegex = re.search('([a-zA-Z ]+)([0-9]+)(th of|nd of|rd of)([a-zA-Z ]+[0-9]+)', span['title'])
             dateString = dateRegex.group(2) + dateRegex.group(4)
-            return datetime.strptime(dateString, "%d %B %Y")
+            return makeDate(dateString, "%d %B %Y")
 
     def ordinal_date_string_to_date(self, datestring):
         datestripped=re.sub(r"(\d+)(st|nd|rd|th)", r"\1", datestring.strip())
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 8ae5b594..d72d00aa 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -479,10 +479,10 @@ def makeDate(string,dateform):
     # just saving bytes.
 
     # fudge english month names for people who's locale is set to
-    # non-english.  All our current sites date in english, even if
-    # there's non-english content. -- ficbook.net now makes that a
-    # lie.  It has to do something even more complicated to get
-    # Russian month names correct everywhere.
+    # non-USenglish.  Most current sites date in english, even if
+    # there's non-english content -- ficbook.net, OTOH, has to do
+    # something even more complicated to get Russian month names
+    # correct everywhere.
     do_abbrev = "%b" in dateform
 
     if u"%B" in dateform or do_abbrev: