Saving in site date format crashes site.

[dcrobertson01]

Hi - whenever I save a file with a date greater than the 12 of the month, I get a 'Crickey there was an error', and the whole page is an error - with

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("Failed to parse time string (13/11/2024) at position 0 (1): Unexpected character").

When I open the page in a text editor, and change or remove the date, the page still fails.

No matter what I do, I still get this error. I've cleared the cache, deleted the cache, restarted the server and so on but it still errors on the date - even when it is no longer there. Caching is also disabled.

The only way to save the page is to delete it in the admin interface, add a new one and make sure the date is not greater than the 12th of the month.

Any solution to this?

[dcrobertson01]

Downloading the latest Grav+admin bundle, removing the user directory, and copying my entire user directory into the folder to replace it seems to have fixed it.

[rhukster]

Ok, so first off the default is US Dates with slashes (/) which works in m/d/Y format so that means 12/03/24 is acutally December 3rd, 2024. Alternative you can use dashes (-) for default Euro format: d-m-Y.

If you want to use Euro format even with slashes, you just set it in the configuration: system -> pages -> dateformat -> default. Set this to d/m/Y. Or you can use any custom PHP date compatible format: https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php

That all said, it shouldn't error out on a bad date, it should just fallback to the timestamp of the file if it can't parse the date correctly, so i've fixed that for the next release.

[dcrobertson01]

Hi - I am still getting this problem, but only on my main installation. My development site is fine. And it only happens on the admin page - if I change the date in the page with an editor, the change is reflected in the published page, but no matter what I do, I get an error on the admin page. I try clearing the cache etc, but still get the error.

If I add or modify a page on the dev machine and copy it to the server it is fine -

I've set the pages-> dateformat->default to d/m/Y (always has been), and I have copied my whole user directory to the server.

Could it be some php setting? Both have the time and date set to UTC, and the timezone set to Auckland/Pacific.

[dcrobertson01]

And another thing - the date picker in the admin page puts the date as 01/02/2024 12:00 am on my local machine, but as 01/02/2024 on the server ...

[dcrobertson01]

BTW - my development site is using the grav server, the main site is using nginx - don't know if that makes a difference.

I don't think I am actually using the short date anywhere, so I've just changed the page format to m/d/Y h:i a. Seems to work now.