diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 69a1405..e293257 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+6.7.1
+-----
+
+- Parse forensic email samples with non-standard date headers
+- Graceful handling of a failure to download the GeoIP database (issue #123) 
+
 6.7.0
 -----
 
diff --git a/parsedmarc/__init__.py b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
index 9d14a8e..4caf818 100644
--- a/parsedmarc/__init__.py
+++ b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from parsedmarc.utils import is_outlook_msg, convert_outlook_msg
 from parsedmarc.utils import timestamp_to_human, human_timestamp_to_datetime
 from parsedmarc.utils import parse_email
 
-__version__ = "6.7.0"
+__version__ = "6.7.1"
 
 logging.basicConfig(
     format='%(levelname)8s:%(filename)s:%(lineno)d:'
diff --git a/parsedmarc/utils.py b/parsedmarc/utils.py
index 7536fb5..dca076a 100644
--- a/parsedmarc/utils.py
+++ b/parsedmarc/utils.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import base64
 import platform
 import atexit
 import mailbox
+import re
 
 import dateparser
 import dns.reversename
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 ((0 {1})) parsedmarc".format(
             platform.release(),
         )
 
+parenthesis_regex = re.compile(r'\s*\(.*\)\s*')
+
 null_file = open(os.devnull, "w")
 logger = logging.getLogger("parsedmarc")
 mailparser_logger = logging.getLogger("mailparser")
@@ -236,6 +239,8 @@ def human_timestamp_to_datetime(human_timestamp, to_utc=False):
         DateTime: The converted timestamp
     """
 
+    human_timestamp = human_timestamp.replace("-0000", "")
+    human_timestamp = parenthesis_regex.sub("", human_timestamp)
     settings = {}
 
     if to_utc:
@@ -320,14 +325,22 @@ def get_ip_address_country(ip_address, parallel=False, offline=False):
     if db_path is None:
         db_path = os.path.join(tempdir, "GeoLite2-Country.mmdb")
         if not os.path.exists(db_path):
-            download_country_database(db_path)
+            try:
+                download_country_database()
+            except Exception as e:
+                logger.error(e.__str__())
+                return None
             if not os.path.exists(db_path):
                 return None
         else:
             db_age = datetime.now() - datetime.fromtimestamp(
                 os.stat(db_path).st_mtime)
             if db_age > timedelta(days=7):
-                download_country_database()
+                try:
+                    download_country_database()
+                except Exception as e:
+                    logger.error(e.__str__())
+                    return None
         db_path = db_path
 
     db_reader = geoip2.database.Reader(db_path)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad59ab0..e8d3c66 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ xmltodict>=0.12.0
 geoip2>=2.9.0
 imapclient>=2.1.0
 mail-parser>=3.9.2
-dateparser>=0.7.1
+dateparser>=0.7.2
 elasticsearch>=6.3.1,<7.0.0
 elasticsearch-dsl>=6.3.1,<7.0.0
 kafka-python>=1.4.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8913a87..47e9b4f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 from codecs import open
 from os import path
 
-__version__ = "6.7.0"
+__version__ = "6.7.1"
 
 description = "A Python package and CLI for parsing aggregate and " \
               "forensic DMARC reports"
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ setup(
                       'geoip2>=2.9.0', 'urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1',
                       'requests>=2.2.16.0', 'imapclient>=2.1.0',
                       'mail-parser>=3.9.2',
-                      'dateparser>=0.7.1',
+                      'dateparser>=0.7.2',
                       'mailsuite>=1.3.0',
                       'elasticsearch>=6.3.1,<7.0.0',
                       'elasticsearch-dsl>=6.3.1,<7.0.0',