I also had a problem with errors in the build and add routines after moving to a server with a newer version of Perl, and I was getting blank What's New pages.

What I did that finally worked:

1) downloaded the older Local.pm module attached in this thread here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=233833#233833

2) Put that in the same directory with links.cfg

3) Referenced the Local.pm as described in that same post:
require "Local.pm";

4) Modified those 2 digit dates by doing a global find and replace on my database as you've described above

find -01 replace -2001
find -02 replace -2002

5) Removed the various kludges and fixes I read elsewhere regarding

$year1 or -1901 and restored the script to the way it was.


6) did a new build and checked the build all went okay and

Whew!