--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sun Feb 17 12:53:57 2008 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sun Feb 17 21:34:28 2008 +0100
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
 
         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 '