diff --git a/backend/src/score.spec.ts b/backend/src/score.spec.ts
index 0d358175..4cca94f3 100644
--- a/backend/src/score.spec.ts
+++ b/backend/src/score.spec.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { ScoreResult, fuzzballTokenSetRatio } from './score';
+import { ScoreResult, fuzzballTokenSetRatio, parseYMD } from './score';
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 
 describe('score.ts - Score function', () => {
@@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ describe('score.ts - Score function', () => {
     expect(score).eq(1)
   })
 
+  it('test parse year month day function', () => {
+    const parsedDate = parseYMD("20220304");
+    // returns the month (from 0 to 11)
+    const month = parsedDate.getMonth() + 1
+    // returns the day of the month (from 1 to 31)
+    const day = parsedDate.getDate()
+    // returns the year (four digits)
+    const year = parsedDate.getFullYear()
+    expect(month).eq(3)
+    expect(day).eq(4)
+    expect(year).eq(2022)
+  })
+
   it('should return 0.8 as global score', () => {
     const score = new ScoreResult({
       name: {
diff --git a/backend/src/score.ts b/backend/src/score.ts
index 8e2ac2d3..ae341151 100644
--- a/backend/src/score.ts
+++ b/backend/src/score.ts
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ const scoreCountry = (countryA: string|string[]|RequestField, countryB: string|s
 
 let scoreLocation = (locA: Location, locB: Location, event?: string, explain?: any): any => {
     const score: any = {};
-    const BisFrench = (locB.countryCode && (locB.countryCode === 'FRA'));
+    const isLocationInFrance = (locB.countryCode && (locB.countryCode === 'FRA'));
     if (locA.code && locB.code) {
         score.code = scoreLocationCode(locA.code, locB.codeHistory as string|string[]);
     }
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ let scoreLocation = (locA: Location, locB: Location, event?: string, explain?: a
     if (locA.latitude && locA.longitude) {
       score.geo = scoreGeo(locA.latitude, locA.longitude, locB.latitude, locB.longitude)
     }
-    if (BisFrench) {
+    if (isLocationInFrance) {
         updateObjProp(explain, `${event}Country`, 'France')
         if (normalize(locA.country as string|string[])) {
             score.country = scoreCountry(locA.country, tokenize(locB.country as string));
@@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ let scoreLocation = (locA: Location, locB: Location, event?: string, explain?: a
 }
 
 
-const parseYMD = (dateString: string): Date => {
-    return new Date(+dateString.substring(0,4),+dateString.substring(4,2) - 1,+dateString.substring(6,2));
+export const parseYMD = (dateString: string): Date => {
+  return new Date(+dateString.substring(0,4), +dateString.substring(4,6) - 1, +dateString.substring(6,8));
 }
 
 const scoreDateRaw = (dateRangeA: any, dateStringB: string, foreignDate: boolean, event: string, explain: any): number => {
@@ -558,6 +558,7 @@ const scoreDateRaw = (dateRangeA: any, dateStringB: string, foreignDate: boolean
         return blindDateScore;
     }
     if (typeof(dateRangeA) === 'string') {
+        dateRangeA = dateRangeA.trim();
         if (/^\s*$/.test(dateRangeA)) {
             return blindDateScore;
         }