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-import { Injectable, Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
-import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common';
-
-@Injectable()
-// #docregion date-pipe
-@Pipe({name: 'date', pure: true})
-export class StringSafeDatePipe extends DatePipe implements PipeTransform {
- transform(value: any, format: string): string {
-   value = typeof value === 'string' ?
-           Date.parse(value) : value;
-   return super.transform(value, format);
- }
-}
-// #enddocregion date-pipe