[X] Include a human-readable description of what the pull request is trying to accomplish.
Fix test harness for MacOS 10.13 so that date tests work correctly.
[X] Steps for the reviewer(s) on how they can manually QA the changes.
Run on MacOS 10.13
[X] Have a fixes #XX reference to the issue that this pull request fixes.
fixes #277
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reference to the issue that this pull request fixes. fixes #277