rustindy

You’re getting errors instead of the article post date on your pages and in the admin section? That’s all the fix above does – it just checks to see if the function is being sent a date or a dateserial and fills $i appropriately so that it ends up being a dateserial.

I’m hoping the Jan9 nightly will either fix the function, or fix the function that calls it. This function (above) can currently only take a full date as a value, not a dateserial.

That’s because your host is running a *nix server. A windows server can only go back to 00:00:01 Jan 1 1970 – using PHP’s mktime() function on smaller dates gives an error about using negative numbers in the function.

I think.

Check that codex link posted above after the nightly gets on the download page – if I find a show-stopper bug or something very obvious to a viewer, it’ll be listed there. In general, avoid using the 1.5 nightly if there’s a known, obvious bug 😉 The Jan7 nightly didn’t have the problem.

Quick hack-fix for “/wp-includes/functions.php”:

Change the line

$i = mktime(substr($m,11,2),substr($m,14,2),substr($m,17,2),substr($m,5,2),substr($m,8,2),substr($m,0,4));

to read

if (strlen($m) > 17) {
$i = mktime(substr($m,11,2),substr($m,14,2),substr($m,17,2),substr($m,5,2),substr($m,8,2),substr($m,0,4));
} else {
$i = $m;
}


It’s an ugly hack, but it’s quick and it works 🙂