Birthday before 1970 always 1970

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by Illuvatar
My only concern is that this appears to be a known bug(as I've seen other posts re. this issue), so is this something that can be addressed in v3.0?

This isn't a vB bug. According to one of the Developers:

"It's a limit of how the date() function works on certain systems. Breaks in Windows as well. Times less than Jan 1, 1970 will be negative relative to the epoch, and some OS's don't handle that. (I saw this once before on a *nix box, but I can't remember the specifics of the setup.)"

[Freddie Bingham]

Originally posted by Steve Machol
This isn't a vB bug. According to one of the Developers:

That's not entirely correct.. It is a bug in the mktime() libraries that PHP reference that is the problem, i.e. RH 7.3. We just need to put in a work around.

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by freddie
That's not entirely correct.. It is a bug in the mktime() libraries that PHP reference that is the problem, i.e. RH 7.3. We just need to put in a work around.

That'll teach me for listening to a Developer!

[Freddie Bingham]

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=php+mktime+7.3&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=note-23916%40php.net&rnum=1

[BigCheeze]

Well whom ever's problem it is, thta updated fixed it nicely on my system as well!!


Thanks for the fix!

[kippesp]

Will this work around be in 2.2.9?

[jschefdog]

Thanks to everyone who posted info on this topic, and to Ed Sullivan for posting the work around. I am supporting a vBulletin site on zeonhost. The zeonhost servers seem to have this problem. The PHP code fix worked for me as well.

What I don't understand about this problem is that the birthday displays just fine under Edit Profile, and if you look at the user profile under the Admin Control Panel. Why don't you just use the same PHP functions to display the birthday in members.php as you use in the control panel pages?

[Cygnus]

Eerie coincidence... I am also on ZeonHost.

My question is different, though. The fix from Ed Sullivan above fixes the problem on the member's page but I still get e-mails with the bad birthdate. Not a big deal but where do I find the line to change that will correct this problem?

Edit:
I found the line on register.php... I think. Just not sure what to change it to. FWIW, I just upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.2.8 and the problem remains.

Thanks in advance!
Cygnus

[Cygnus]

Bump. Still looking for help on this.

Developer?

Cygnus

[Gustav]

Originally posted by Illuvatar
Whoo Hoo!

Thank you Ed Sullivan!!

I applied the above changes and POOF everyone has their b-day displayed as it should!!

My only concern is that this appears to be a known bug(as I've seen other posts re. this issue), so is this something that can be addressed in v3.0?

Thanks again.

This is fixed in the 2.2.9 version I assume?

[The Gadgeteer]

Originally posted by Gustav
This is fixed in the 2.2.9 version I assume?

No, it's still there. I just ran into it on a 2.2.9 system I installed this weekend.

Julie

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com

[Boofo]

Originally posted by andrewpfeifer
This is probably because the epoch for *nix was on January 1, 1970. I'm not sure if this is fixable or what.

Edit: Hate to use you as an example, Steve, but it works on this profile: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/membe...amp;userid=656

So maybe I'm not sure what you're talking about.

That date doesn't mean anything. I used to get thast same date for a Jan 31, 1954 birthday (mine), I fixed it for the getinfo but I can't seem to find a way to fix it for the newuser notify for registration.

[Boofo]

Originally posted by Boofo
That date doesn't mean anything. I used to get thast same date for a Jan 31, 1954 birthday (mine), I fixed it for the getinfo but I can't seem to find a way to fix it for the newuser notify for registration.

Cygnus, here is the fix that I just did and it works right here now.

In register.php

Find:

    if (date("Y")>$year and $year>1901 && $year!='0000') {
          $birthday = @date($calformat1,mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year));
       } else {
          $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,0));
       }

Replace it with:

       if (date("Y")>$year and $year>1901 && $year!='0000') {
          $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,1993)).', '.$year;
       } else {
          $birthday = @date($calformat2,mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,1993));
       }

[Craig A]

Originally posted by The Gadgeteer
No, it's still there. I just ran into it on a 2.2.9 system I installed this weekend.

Julie
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com

Has this bug been rectified in 3.0? I have just moved to an upgraded server and we are now suffering from this problem. I am about to apply the fix posted above but do not want to have to try and add this every single time I upgrade, for obvious reasons!

[Craig A]

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