--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Wed Mar 12 15:44:08 2008 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Thu Mar 13 15:40:41 2008 +0100
@@ -202,13 +202,11 @@
 
         date: date tuple to use if committing'''
 
-        date = util.parsedate(date)
         for x in self.status()[:5]:
             if '.hgtags' in x:
                 raise util.Abort(_('working copy of .hgtags is changed '
                                    '(please commit .hgtags manually)'))
 
-
         self._tag(name, node, message, local, user, date)
 
     def tags(self):