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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Or in combinations:
 2. Years are always given in 4 digits or in combination with months and days
 3. Time without dates is an number in seconds from the beginning of the day
 4. Dates without times have the time 00:00:00 (hh-mm-ss)
-5. We are now throwing exceptions, if a date/time does not work _nil_ is returned.
+5. We are not throwing exceptions, if a date/time does not work _nil_ is returned.
 
 ## Limitations / Todo
 1. No support for ordinal dates