<![CDATA[Migrating NodeBB getting errors.]]>Right now I am trying to get a nodebb forum migrated to a new server. But right now I am getting an error that says.

ERROR: You specified an invalid date.

I have been unable to figure out how to fix this and could use some help.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/topic/0217c76b-1b8c-4190-9384-ebc8ee8b49f5/migrating-nodebb-getting-errors.RSS for NodeSun, 26 Jul 2026 02:08:37 GMTThu, 25 Jun 2026 17:35:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:11:24 GMT]]>@cwsmith@community.nodebb.org I would recommend you try to add in the console log that @baris@community.nodebb.org suggested so we can see the cron value being passed in.

Judging by your logs they're not showing anything output 🤔

Can you make the edit and let us know what kind of logging you added as well?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2062https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2062Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:11:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:09:07 GMT]]>All I see are just blocks of this error over and over in logs/output.log

NodeBB v4.13.2 Copyright (C) 2013-2026 NodeBB Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistrib>For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/&gt; Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).

2026-07-05T16:37:19.790Z [4567/85498] - ^[[32minfo^[[39>
2026-07-05T16:37:20.749Z [4567/85498] - ^[[33mwarn^[[39>
2026-07-05T16:37:20.921Z [4567/85498] - ^[[32minfo^[[39>
2026-07-05T16:37:20.980Z [4567/85498] - ^[[32minfo^[[39>
2026-07-05T16:37:20.988Z [4567/85498] - ^[[32minfo^[[39>
2026-07-05T16:37:21.013Z [4567/85498] - ^[[31merror^[[3>
at CronTime.getNextDateFrom (/var/www/community.dar>
at CronTime.sendAt (/var/www/community.darkscribes.>
at CronTime.getTimeout (/var/www/community.darkscri>
at CronJob.start (/var/www/community.darkscribes.co>
at new CronJob (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/>
at exports.addJob (/var/www/community.darkscribes.c>
at Analytics.init (/var/www/community.darkscribes.c>
at Object.wrapperCallback [as init] (/var/www/commu>
at initializeNodeBB (/var/www/community.darkscribes>
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal>
[cluster] Child Process (85498) has exited (code: 0, si>

NodeBB v4.13.2 Copyright (C) 2013-2026 NodeBB Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistrib>
For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/&gt;

Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es)

I am still on Gentoo Linux so if I missed a use flag I can fix it. Just need a use flag.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107499https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107499Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:09:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:57:12 GMT]]>@CWSmith that log isn't showing enough.

Instead of ./nodebb log can you open the log in something like nano so you can see more?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107498https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107498Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:57:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:07:36 GMT]]>24.14.0 running on Gentoo linux

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107439https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107439Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:07:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:52:54 GMT]]>What is your nodejs version?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107437https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107437Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:52:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:18:49 GMT]]>@baris

I did. Not even sure why this is coming up sinxe that databse and the code was working properly on another server without this particular error.

Could I have missinstalled something?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107435https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107435Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:18:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:12:25 GMT]]>Doesn't look like it shows anything new. Did you restart nodebb after adding the console.log?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107434https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107434Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:12:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:01:55 GMT]]>I'll be be honest. I am not sure I did it right.

But here's what the log is spitting out.

0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-26T12:00:56.479Z [4567/316835] - info: Initializing NodeBB v4.13.2 https://community.darkscribes.com                                                    0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-26T12:00:57.525Z [4567/316835] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: https://community.darkscribes.com:*                                    0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-26T12:00:57.552Z [4567/316835] - error: Error: ERROR: You specified an invalid date.         0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.getNextDateFrom (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:130:19)
0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.sendAt (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:86:35)
0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.getTimeout (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:99:21)
0|darkscribes  |     at CronJob.start (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/job.js:163:37)
0|darkscribes  |     at new CronJob (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/job.js:68:18)
0|darkscribes  |     at exports.addJob (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/cron.js:42:14)
0|darkscribes  |     at Notifications.startJobs (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/notifications.js:79:13)
0|darkscribes  |     at Object.wrapperCallback [as startJobs] (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/promisify.js:46:11)
0|darkscribes  |     at start.start (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/start.js:39:37)
0|darkscribes  |     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)
0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-26T12:00:57.766Z [4567/316851] -
]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107433https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107433Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:01:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:45:19 GMT]]>The version of cron looks good. To check the value passed to cron open up the file cron.js in /path/to/nodebb/src/cron.js and add a console.log(cronTime) on here. Then restart nodebb and see what the message shows in the logs. For each cronjob that was started it should show it's pattern.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107429https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107429Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:45:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:29:54 GMT]]>Not sure how to do the first thing. But here is the output of the second.

cwsmith@map-communities /var/www/community.darkscribes.com $ npm ls cron
nodebb@4.13.2 /var/www/community.darkscribes.com
├── cron@4.4.0
├─┬ nodebb-plugin-poll@4.0.10
│ └── cron@1.8.2
└─┬ nodebb-plugin-rss@4.0.2
└── cron@1.8.2

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107428https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107428Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:29:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:51:50 GMT]]>It looks like the cron pattern passed to the cron module is invalid, can you log it's value in src/cron.js? What is the output of npm ls cron ?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107427https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107427Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:51:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:42:24 GMT]]>@julian@activitypub.space

Sure.

Here's what I got at the moment.

nfo: Initializing NodeBB v4.13.2 https://community.darkscribes.com                                                    0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-25T17:41:16.558Z [4567/234065] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: https://community.darkscribes.com:*                                    0|darkscribes  | 2026-06-25T17:41:16.584Z [4567/234065] - error: Error: ERROR: You specified an invalid date.         0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.getNextDateFrom (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:130:19)                                                      0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.sendAt (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:86:35)     0|darkscribes  |     at CronTime.getTimeout (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/time.js:99:21) 0|darkscribes  |     at CronJob.start (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/job.js:163:37)       0|darkscribes  |     at new CronJob (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/node_modules/cron/dist/job.js:68:18)          0|darkscribes  |     at exports.addJob (/var/www/community.
darkscribes.com/src/cron.js:42:14)                         0|darkscribes  |     at Notifications.startJobs (/var/www/c
ommunity.darkscribes.com/src/notifications.js:79:13)       0|darkscribes  |     at Object.wrapperCallback [as startJob
s] (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/promisify.js:46:11)
0|darkscribes  |     at start.start (/var/www/community.darkscribes.com/src/start.js:39:37)
0|darkscribes  |     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)
]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107426https://fedi.wiki/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/107426Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:42:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Migrating NodeBB getting errors. on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:36:17 GMT]]>@cwsmith@community.nodebb.org what exactly is happening when you get that error?

Can you share a portion of the log from when that occurs?

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2033https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2033Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:36:17 GMT