diff --git a/client/electrum b/client/electrum
index 10389c51..011d56f2 100755
--- a/client/electrum
+++ b/client/electrum
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
             v = line['value'] 
             b += v
             try:
-                time_str = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp( line['timestamp']) 
+                time_str = str( datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp( line['timestamp']))
             except:
                 print line['timestamp']
                 time_str = 'pending'
diff --git a/client/version.py b/client/version.py
index c3fa0523..0ef78911 100644
--- a/client/version.py
+++ b/client/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-ELECTRUM_VERSION = "0.43b"
+ELECTRUM_VERSION = "0.43c"
 SEED_VERSION = 4  # bump this everytime the seed generation is modified