Corrupt Date Formatting

depth42

Corrupt Date Formatting

I've been running a Flarum forum for a couple of years on my website (https://forum.pianoscope.app). A while ago, the date formatting on posts older than a month has become broken. Recent posts are correctly indicated with "an hour ago", "a day ago", "2 days ago", "a month ago" etc. But posts which are older than a month get strange date strings like: "core.14.11.2024ib.4amteti49e_for49amt28.5u49amnTi49e14.11.2024ong"

Does anybody know what might be going on here?

Thanks and cheers!

Frank

Flarum information

Flarum core: 1.8.9
PHP version: 8.1.31
MySQL version: 10.11.4-MariaDB-1:10.11.4+maria_deb11-log
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, pcntl, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, imagick, imap, intl, ldap, exif, mcrypt, mysqli, odbc, pdo_dblib, pdo_mysql, PDO_ODBC, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, Phar, posix, pspell, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, snmp, soap, sockets, sqlite3, ssh2, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tidy, tokenizer, uploadprogress, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, ionCube Loader, Zend OPcache, SourceGuardian
+--------------------------+---------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions | | |
+--------------------------+---------+--------+
| ID | Version | Commit |
+--------------------------+---------+--------+
| flarum-flags | v1.8.2 | |
| flarum-approval | v1.8.2 | |
| flarum-tags | v1.8.3 | |
| fof-upload | 1.7.1 | |
| fof-subscribed | 1.1.4 | |
| fof-links | 1.3.0 | |
| fof-formatting | 1.0.3 | |
| flarum-suspend | v1.8.4 | |
| flarum-subscriptions | v1.8.1 | |
| flarum-sticky | v1.8.2 | |
| flarum-statistics | v1.8.1 | |
| flarum-nicknames | v1.8.2 | |
| flarum-mentions | v1.8.5 | |
| flarum-markdown | v1.8.1 | |
| flarum-lock | v1.8.2 | |
| flarum-likes | v1.8.1 | |
| flarum-lang-russian | 1.43.0 | |
| flarum-lang-italian | 1.17.0 | |
| flarum-lang-german | 1.17.0 | |
| flarum-lang-french | v3.9.0 | |
| flarum-lang-english | v1.8.0 | |
| flarum-extension-manager | v1.0.6 | |
| flarum-emoji | v1.8.1 | |
| flarum-bbcode | v1.8.0 | |
+--------------------------+---------+--------+
Base URL: https://forum.pianoscope.app
Installation path: /home/www/forum
Queue driver: sync
Session driver: file
Mail driver: smtp
Debug mode: off

luceos

depth42 have you tried clearing your cache with php flarum cache:clear?

clarkwinkelmann

Which language(s) are impacted by this problem? We've seen an issue recently with French where the language pack was using incorrect patterns for the date, I believe this has been fixed, but there could be similar issues with other language packs.

luceos

clarkwinkelmann it happens with English here: https://forum.pianoscope.app/d/77-learning-aural-tuning-gazelle-online-course

clarkwinkelmann

Oh right, that output looks like the raw translation key was fed into DayJS, meaning the translations are not loaded at all.

This is confirmed by dumping app.translator.translations, there are no translations prefixed by core.lib.datetime_formats. This suggests the cache has not been cleared since the last time Flarum was updated.

depth42

Thank you guys! Clearing the cache solved the problem perfectly.