From 8197d8984a98077555bdd568f39a3698e3b65da0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Weiss <bweiss@activision.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:44:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Handle "before YYYY" entries to fix #228

---
 whois/parser.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/whois/parser.py b/whois/parser.py
index c6ac036..ba0c1a6 100644
--- a/whois/parser.py
+++ b/whois/parser.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
     "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f %Z",  # 23/04/2015 12:00:07.619546 EEST
     "%B %d %Y",  # August 14 2017
     "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S",  # 08.03.2014 10:28:24
+    "before %Y",     # before 2001
     "before %b-%Y",  # before aug-1996
     "before %Y-%m-%d",  # before 1996-01-01
     "before %Y%m%d",  # before 19960821