After OJS 3.3.0.14 upgrade, submision and articles pages are empty

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After OJS 3.3.0.14 upgrade, submision and articles pages are empty and we get the following errors in the error.log, what could be the problem?

error.log
[php7:error] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to PHP81_BC\strftime() must be of the type string, null given, called in

Firefox Developer console error;
Status 500 Internal Server Error

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What version of PHP do you use? 7 or 8? the message says php7:error but it shows an 8.1 error.

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thanks for your reply
I set the “intl” extension, but there was no change

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Versions;
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
libapache2-mod-php7.4

I guess I’ll have to do a php upgrade, right?

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Hi @nkisnisci,

Can you include the stack trace? It appears right below the error message you quoted in the first message on the thread.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,

message in full;
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to PHP81_BC\strftime() must be of the type string, null given, called in …/lib/pkp/controllers/grid/files /FileDateGridColumn.inc.php on line 56 and defined in …/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/php81_bc/strftime/src/php-8.1-strftime.php:30\nStack trace:\n#0 … /lib/pkp/controllers/grid/files/FileDateGridColumn.inc.php(56): PHP81_BC\strftime()\n#1 …/lib/pkp/classes/controllers/grid/ColumnBasedGridCellProvider.inc.php( 34): FileDateGridColumn->getTemplateVarsFromRow()\n#2 …/lib/pkp/classes/controllers/grid/GridCellProvider.inc.php(49): ColumnBasedGridCellProvider->getTemplateVarsFromRowColumn()\n#3 …/ lib/pkp/classes/controllers/grid/GridHandler.inc.php(1104): GridCellProvider->render()\n#4 …/lib/pkp/classes/control in …/lib/pkp/lib /vendor/php81_bc/strftime/src/php-8.1-strftime.php on line 30, referer: …/index.php/JDD/authorDashboard/submission/48

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we get the above message on the submission page, on the articles page we get the following message;

[php7:error] [pid …] [client …] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to PHP81_BC\strftime() must be of the type string, null given, called in …/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/services/PKPStatsService.inc.php on line 288 and defined in …/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/php81_bc/strftime/src/php-8.1-strftime.php:30\nStack trace:\n#0 …/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/services/PKPStatsService.inc.php(288): PHP81_BC\strftime()\n#1 …/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/services/PKPStatsService.inc.php(128): PKP\Services\PKPStatsService->getEmptyTimelineIntervals()\n#2 …/public_html/lib/pkp/pages/stats/PKPStatsHandler.inc.php(241): PKP\Services\PKPStatsService->getTimeline()\n#3 …/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPRouter.inc.php(395): PKPStatsHandler->publications()\n#4 …/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/PKPPageRouter.inc.php(246): PKPRouter->_authorizeInitializeAndC in …/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/vendor/php81_bc/strftime/src/php-8.1-strftime.php on line 30, referer: https://…/index.php/idcm/workflow/index/42/5

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Hi @nkisnisci,

Can you double-check that your date and time formats are properly configured in Website > Setup > Date & Time?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,

settings are below;
Config.inc.php
; Site time zone
; Please refer to lib/pkp/registry/timeZones.xml for a full list of supported
; time zones.
; I.e.:
;
; time_zone=“Amsterdam”
time_zone = “UTC”

; Short and long date formats
date_format_short = “%Y-%m-%d”
date_format_long = “%B %e, %Y”
datetime_format_short = “%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p”
datetime_format_long = “%B %e, %Y - %I:%M %p”
time_format = “%I:%M %p”

php.ini setting
[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
;date.timezone =

; http://php.net/date.default-latitude
;date.default_latitude = 31.7667

; http://php.net/date.default-longitude
;date.default_longitude = 35.2333

; http://php.net/date.sunrise-zenith
;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333

; http://php.net/date.sunset-zenith
;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333

Note: OJS 3.3.0.8 works fine on the same server

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Hi @nkisnisci,

I mean the setup web interface, not the configuration file.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,
I’m sorry but I guess I didn’t understand that.
Are you talking about browser date & time setting, I couldn’t see any setting other than language in firefox

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Hi @nkisnisci,

There should be settings in the OJS dashboard:

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Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,

So sorry.

All of them custom set.

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Hi Alec,

When I changed the settings, the Submission and Articles pages were displayed without any problems.

Thanks a lot for your support

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