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Strange PHP error on live web site.

Noticed late yesterday a strange error occurring on our website when a specific article was accessed.

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The error is :  DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (about 5 months ago) at position 0 (a): The timezone could not be found in the database

 

Nothing had been changed on the page for some time so I think this is some form of PHP bug.  [Currently running 5.4.11].

To resolve it I had to copy the offending article and then just point the menu items to the copy.  This indicates that it wasn’t anything specific about the article itself that was wrong.

Since the error is not specifically related to something that I/we have done, it is obviously something to report to the hosting company.

Not reproducible on any of our test instances, and of course it had to occur on the ‘live site’.  Isn’t that always the way. Smile

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