id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
23403	sitemap crashes if lastmod returns a date (instead of datetime)	Igor Koshkarov	Tim Graham	"When building a sitemap I receive 
{{{
Django Version: 	1.7
Exception Type: 	AttributeError
Exception Value: 	'datetime.date' object has no attribute 'utctimetuple'

Exception Location: 	<skipped>/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sitemaps/views.py in sitemap, line 78

}}}
Workaround can be done as:
{{{
diff --git a/django/contrib/sitemaps/views.py b/django/contrib/sitemaps/views.py
index aa184e9..d74c55b 100644
--- a/django/contrib/sitemaps/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/sitemaps/views.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from django.http import Http404
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.http import http_date
+from datetime import datetime
 
 
 def x_robots_tag(func):
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ def sitemap(request, sitemaps, section=None,
             raise Http404(""No page '%s'"" % page)
     response = TemplateResponse(request, template_name, {'urlset': urls},
                                 content_type=content_type)
-    if hasattr(site, 'latest_lastmod'):
+    if hasattr(site, 'latest_lastmod') and type(site.latest_lastmod) is datetime:
         # if latest_lastmod is defined for site, set header so as
         # ConditionalGetMiddleware is able to send 304 NOT MODIFIED
         response['Last-Modified'] = http_date(
}}}
"	Bug	closed	contrib.sitemaps	1.7	Release blocker	fixed	date utctimetuple		Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0