diff --git a/Hledger/Cli/Tests.hs b/Hledger/Cli/Tests.hs
index f38cd34f8..8aa7660ce 100644
--- a/Hledger/Cli/Tests.hs
+++ b/Hledger/Cli/Tests.hs
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ tests = TestList [
       ["2009/01/01 медвежья шкура       расходы:покупки                 100          100"
       ,"                                актив:наличные                 -100            0"]
 
-  ,"smart dates" ~: do
+  ,"fixSmartDateStr" ~: do
     let gives = is . fixSmartDateStr (parsedate "2008/11/26")
     "1999-12-02"   `gives` "1999/12/02"
     "1999.12.02"   `gives` "1999/12/02"
diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Dates.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Dates.hs
index 7ed6b8bba..78b5411f5 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Dates.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Dates.hs
@@ -246,10 +246,7 @@ Assumes any text in the parse stream has been lowercased.
 -}
 smartdate :: GenParser Char st SmartDate
 smartdate = do
-  let dateparsers = [yyyymmdd, ymd, ym, md, y, d, month, mon, today, yesterday, tomorrow,
-                     lastthisnextthing
-                    ]
-  (y,m,d) <- choice $ map try dateparsers
+  (y,m,d) <- choice' [yyyymmdd, ymd, ym, md, y, d, month, mon, today, yesterday, tomorrow, lastthisnextthing]
   return (y,m,d)
 
 -- | Like smartdate, but there must be nothing other than whitespace after the date.
diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Utils.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Utils.hs
index 6a8c807c4..51ceb6397 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Utils.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Utils.hs
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ tracewith f e = trace (f e) e
 
 -- parsing
 
+choice' = choice . map Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.try
+
 parsewith :: Parser a -> String -> Either ParseError a
 parsewith p = parse p ""