diff --git a/news/95.bugfix b/news/95.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a99b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/95.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+Disable automatic conversion of date strings in yaml decoding
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/omegaconf/config.py b/omegaconf/config.py
index 0d76e38..8b21e27 100644
--- a/omegaconf/config.py
+++ b/omegaconf/config.py
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ def get_yaml_loader():
         ),
         list(u"-+0123456789."),
     )
+    loader.yaml_implicit_resolvers = {
+        key: [
+            (tag, regexp)
+            for tag, regexp in resolvers
+            if tag != u"tag:yaml.org,2002:timestamp"
+        ]
+        for key, resolvers in loader.yaml_implicit_resolvers.items()
+    }
     return loader
 
 

diff --git a/tests/test_create.py b/tests/test_create.py
index 5d11d5d..668181d 100644
--- a/tests/test_create.py
+++ b/tests/test_create.py
@@ -50,7 +50,15 @@ def test_cli_passing():
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "input_, expected", [(["a=1", "b.c=2"], dict(a=1, b=dict(c=2)))]
+    "input_, expected",
+    [
+        # simple
+        (["a=1", "b.c=2"], dict(a=1, b=dict(c=2))),
+        # string
+        (["a=hello", "b=world"], dict(a="hello", b="world")),
+        # date-formatted string
+        (["my_date=2019-12-11"], dict(my_date="2019-12-11")),
+    ],
 )
 def test_dotlist(input_, expected):
     c = OmegaConf.from_dotlist(input_)

Disable automatic conversion of date strings in from_dotlist
### Issue
When instantiating OmegaConf from `from_dotlist`, yaml loader tries to convert date-formatted strings into `date` type, therefore raises error when validating the type of values.

```
 OmegaConf.from_dotlist(["my_date=2019-11-11"])

>>>

.../site-packages/omegaconf/config.py in _prepare_value_to_add(self, key, value)
    448         if not Config.is_primitive_type(value):
    449             full_key = self.get_full_key(key)
--> 450             raise ValueError("key {}: {} is not a primitive type".format(full_key, type(value).__name__))
    451
    452         if self._get_flag('readonly'):

ValueError: key my_date: date is not a primitive type
```
This error also blocks the overriding of configuration values by using cli arguments in hydra.

### Potential workaround
Could be solved by removing implicit timestamp resolvers in default `yaml.SafeLoader`.
(Related stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34667108/ignore-dates-and-times-while-parsing-yaml)



tests/test_create.py::test_dotlist[input_2-expected2]
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