assistance with database error?

[Josh Quinnell]

I have now manually gone through the date tags and there does not seem to
be any invalid data. All tags are 2009 - 2012. All prior databases saved
under 2.4.10 for windows share this problem. Does anyone have other
suggestions or methods to import an old database into WIN 2.4.10 to
circumvent this problem? Thanks

Trace:
* 19:59:06  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1869 bytes.
The identifiers might not be very random.
* 19:59:30  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
child process (No such file or directory)
* 22:30:26  CRIT <qof> qof_strftime: assertion `tm' failed
* 22:30:26  CRIT <gnc.import> [TransactionGetTokens()] TransactionGetTokens:
error, strftime failed

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Josh Quinnell <quin0167 at umn.edu> wrote:

> Yes. There appears to be no invalid dates under the tag <ts:date> unless
> they are invalid characters or something.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>wrote:
>
>> On 28 July 2012 at 14:13, Josh Quinnell said:
>>
>> > I have searched for the strings " date>0" and "date>1" to find for years
>> > below 1970 without any luck. Do you have any suggestions for finding a
>> > date before 1970?
>>
>> The usual bad date (from others' reports: I haven't seen one myself)
>> seems to be 1969-12-31 (i.e. one day before Unix epoch). Have you tried
>> looking for that, specifically?
>>
>>
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