From e55e5501984f1ee276f6fe54366062f99b729678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Utku Demir <utdemir@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:21:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue #1258

Correctly handle DEFAULT_DATE = None .
---
 pelican/readers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index d070a19c..7cb59f5a 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ def default_metadata(settings=None, process=None):
             if process:
                 value = process('category', value)
             metadata['category'] = value
-        if 'DEFAULT_DATE' in settings and settings['DEFAULT_DATE'] != 'fs':
+        if settings.get('DEFAULT_DATE', None) and settings['DEFAULT_DATE'] != 'fs':
             metadata['date'] = datetime.datetime(*settings['DEFAULT_DATE'])
     return metadata