HI, has anyone got any idea how to solve this.

A site I have recently updated to Joomla 3.7 has an error I have not seen before. When saving certain existing items are edited and saved, the following error displays:

0 DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (-1-11-30 00:00:00) at position 5 (-): Double timezone specification

Other items save fine. I am yet to determine what difference if any between the ones that will save and those that won't.

Everything is up to date, using php 7.1

Hello,

Can you enable error reporting or take a look at the error_log to see which file(s) are producing this error?

Having the same error.

Looks like when we updated the "publish" date field wiped throughout all of our K2 items and now that field is zeroed out in the database (all the items in joomla shows Jan 12, 2017). Until you edit the published date, the item will continuously throw this error on save.

We're not in a spot where we can wait for a solution so we're just going to drop a number into that field for all of our items to prevent the errors, but for someone who is using the publishing date, that wouldn't be a good solution.

Note:
Error logs have nothing related to this error
Maximum reporting does not show additional errors

...didn't work. Really not sure what's up here. We do know changing the published date field manually fixes individual entries (we just can't do that for 1000+ entries)

Oh man, my buddy here found a fix:

temp fix line 139 of `administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php`

Hopefully that helps.

Which version of K2 are you using?

Just updated. K2 v2.7.1 on Joomla 3.7.2

Did you update before the error and before using Joomla! 3.7.x?

Any definite solution yet?

I'm getting the same error here. An editor adds an article through the frontend of my site. When the article is edited in the admin, the above error is produced when trying to save changes.

When I look at the database I see that the items created in the frontend have a wrong 'created' value (0000-00-00 00:00:00). Apparently there is no creation date stored in the frontend.

Joomla 3.7.3 and K2 2.7.1

There is a work around for now: when editing an item, go to the Publishing & Meta tab and correct the created date. (Set it to today or whatever date, as long as the date format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)