After almost two years of stable functioning my links database refuses to rebuild the web pages with the following error message:
fatal error: invalid date format: 18-Mar-99 - parsed as (day: 18, month: 2, year: -1801). Reason: Can't handle date (0, 0, 0, 18, 2, -1801) at /home/x/xxx/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg line 163

Can anyone help me out on this?
TIA

Olle Lindevall

A copy of the entire error screen is included below:

Building Pages
Pages built on 19-Feb-2001 at 14:38:48
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Backing up database . . .
Backing up links, category and email database (File::Copy) ...
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .

CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : fatal error: invalid date format: 18-Mar-99 - parsed as (day: 18, month: 2, year: -1801). Reason: Can't handle date (0, 0, 0, 18, 2, -1801) at /home/x/xxx/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/links.cfg line 163

Script Location : /home/x/xxx/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006

Form Variables
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Environment Variables
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AUTH_TYPE : Basic
CLASSPATH : /usr/local/jdk/lib/classes.zip
DOCUMENT_ROOT : /home/x/xxx/www
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: sv
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_HOST : www.xxx.se
HTTP_REFERER : http://www.xxx.se/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi?display=navigation
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
NS_JAVA : 1
PATH : /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
REMOTE_HOST : xxx.se
REMOTE_PORT : 3947
REMOTE_USER : xxx
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /home/x/xxx/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
SERVER_ADDR : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@xxx.se
SERVER_NAME : www.xxx.se
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE : Apache/1.3.17 Server at www.xxx.se Port 80

SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_01 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_ssl/2.8.0 OpenSSL/0.9.6

This has already been discussed a couple of times, just last week.

Check out the following thread:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...ew=&sb=&vc=1

or

search the forum.

Thomas
http://www.japanreference.com

Thanks a lot for pointing out the appropriate thread to me!/Olle

You're welcome!

Thomas
http://www.japanreference.com