From 936c737a32769c45558da536e64d6aa9161535cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Burnette <ryan.burnette@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:21:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Address #3298

---
 lib/jekyll/filters.rb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
index fca03437..5972aad6 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ module Jekyll
       case input
       when Time
         input
+      when Date
+        input.to_time
       when String
         Time.parse(input) rescue Time.at(input.to_i)
       when Numeric