diff --git a/cps/web.py b/cps/web.py
index 1c16f6ae..c119de05 100755
--- a/cps/web.py
+++ b/cps/web.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def mimetype_filter(val):
 @app.template_filter('formatdate')
 def formatdate(val):
     conformed_timestamp = re.sub(r"[:]|([-](?!((\d{2}[:]\d{2})|(\d{4}))$))", '', val)
-    formatdate = datetime.datetime.strptime(conformed_timestamp[:-5], "%Y%m%d %H%M%S")
+    formatdate = datetime.datetime.strptime(conformed_timestamp[:15], "%Y%m%d %H%M%S")
     return format_date(formatdate, format='medium',locale=get_locale())