From 0458d16e719b9796a82b94cd57adc7cc9bfdb92d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:43:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] avoid NotImplementedError for the time being

---
 beets/library.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/library.py b/beets/library.py
index c712aa45f..a66e1df78 100644
--- a/beets/library.py
+++ b/beets/library.py
@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ class DateType(types.Type):
                              time.localtime(value or 0))
 
     def parse(self, string):
-        raise NotImplementedError()  # FIXME
+        # FIXME Real date parsing.
+        try:
+            return float(string)
+        except ValueError:
+            return 0.0
 
 
 class PathType(types.Type):