The 'epoch' parameter (undef) to DateTime::from_epoch did not pass regex check

[tsujigiri]

Since today twirssi crashes with the following error:

20:59:54 -!- Irssi: Error in script twirssi:
20:59:54 The 'epoch' parameter (undef) to DateTime::from_epoch did not pass regex check
20:59:54  at /usr/lib/perl5/DateTime.pm line 461
20:59:54 IDateTime::from_epoch(undef, 'epoch', undef, 'time_zone', 'DateTime::TimeZone::Europe::Berlin=HASH(0x2a3f270)') called at /home/helge/.irssi/scripts/autorun/twirssi.pl line 2776
20:59:54 IIrssi::Script::twirssi::write_lines('ARRAY(0x2c9a128)', 1) called at /home/helge/.irssi/scripts/autorun/twirssi.pl line 2643
20:59:54 IIrssi::Script::twirssi::monitor_child('ARRAY(0x2d147d0)') called at -e line 0
20:59:54 Ieval {...} called at -e line 0

Happens with versions 2.5.1 and 2.5.2beta4 (no other versions tried) on an up-to-date Debian stable. Might be a DST issue. In case it matters, Germany switches to summer time in two weeks.

[gedge]

What version of DateTime do you have? (Mine is 0.72)

$ perl -MDateTime -E 'say $DateTime::VERSION;'

[tsujigiri]

In the meantime I upgraded all the modules via CPAN and it seems to work now. Not sure if this is supposed to be done this way, when everything Perl was installed via apt. Does CPAN keep a log, where I can see what the version was before?

[gedge]

Glad to hear it's working.

CPAN history? Not that I know of. But, perhaps apt will tell you what versions are available (i.e. were on the system) if they weren't bundled.

[tsujigiri]

Now it happened again. DateTime's version is 0.72 now.

[gedge]

What's the full error message?

[tsujigiri]

What I quoted above is all I see in irssi.

[tsujigiri]

One more hint: the twirssi window itself says Day changed to 1970-01-01.

[gedge]

what does /etc/timezone contain, on your system?

(I'm reading 16.1 from http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html )

[gedge]

you might have some output left on your system (in /tmp or /var/tmp) e.g. in a file /tmp/tw_* which contains the offending line(s), try

$ perl -ne '/epoch:($|\D|0)/ and print' /tmp/tw_*

Does this show anything?

[tsujigiri]

/etc/timezone: Europe/Berlin

There are some files in /tmp, but none of them has a match.

[tsujigiri]

Looks like it happens when adding a subscription with more than one word (e.g. /twitter_subscribe foo bar).

[gedge]

thanks, yes, that's a fixable bug - will get new code up soon

[gedge]

uploaded a fix, please try

[tsujigiri]

Perfect. Thanks a lot!