From a77feab830514e8506cedff8ace0c6965aecbff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carolin Sachgau <carolin.sachgau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:47:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] datetime patch

---
 fishbook/database/util.py | 6 ++++++
 setup.py                  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fishbook/database/util.py b/fishbook/database/util.py
index e821d19..796cb5f 100644
--- a/fishbook/database/util.py
+++ b/fishbook/database/util.py
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ import glob
 import datetime as dt
 import subprocess
 from IPython import embed
+try:
+    iso = dt.date.fromisoformat
+except AttributeError:
+    from backports.datetime_fromisoformat import MonkeyPatch
+    MonkeyPatch.patch_fromisoformat()
+
 
 
 def read_info_file(file_name):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9037488..f743727 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ setup(name='fishbook',
       packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'doc', 'tests*']),
       description='Database providing an overview of the electrophysiological data recorded in the group.',
       author='Jan Grewe',
-      requires=['datajoint', 'nixio', 'numpy', 'PyYAML']
+      requires=['datajoint', 'nixio', 'numpy', 'PyYAML', 'backports-datetime-fromisoformat']
       )