--- a/hgext/bugzilla.py	Sun Nov 10 07:30:14 2019 -0800
+++ b/hgext/bugzilla.py	Fri Nov 08 11:19:20 2019 -0800
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@
             self.ui.warn(_(b"Bugzilla/MySQL cannot update bug state\n"))
 
         (user, userid) = self.get_bugzilla_user(committer)
-        now = time.strftime(r'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+        now = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
         self.run(
             '''insert into longdescs
                     (bug_id, who, bug_when, thetext)