diff --git a/R/usercountry.R b/R/usercountry.R
index 9eb3638..0ea414c 100644
--- a/R/usercountry.R
+++ b/R/usercountry.R
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #'
 #' @inheritParams matomoQuery
 #'
+#' @importFrom stringr str_replace str_replace_all
+#'
 #' @examples
 #' \dontrun{
 #' df <- getUserCountry("https://demo.matomo.org/", siteId=3, period="day", date="last60")
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@
   matomoQuery(matomoUrl = matomoUrl,
               siteId = siteId,
               period = period,
-              date = date,
+              date = str_replace_all(str_replace_all(date, " *UTC", ""), "-00", "-01"),
               removeFirst = FALSE,
               removeLast = FALSE,
               accessToken = accessToken,