The following is from Manip.pod, the documentation file for Date::Manip "Date::Manip must be able to determine the timezone the user is in. It does this by looking in the following places: $Date::Manip::TZ (set with Date_Init or in Manip.pm) $ENV{TZ} the unix `date` command (if available) $main::TZ /etc/TIMEZONE /etc/timezone At least one of these should contain a timezone in one of the supported forms. If none do by default, the TZ variable must be set with Date_Init." I had the same problem you are having on a windows install of Koha and solved it by creating a file named timezone in my \etc folder with the following entry: TZ=EST See the Manip.pod documentation file for other acceptable timezone abreviations. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Rosunee Arvindnath To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:38 AM Subject: [Koha] Problem with Date::Manip I have installed Koha version 1.2.3 on Red Linux 8.0. I have installed Date::Manip by downlading the file DateManip-5.40.tar.gz from http://search.cpan.org and installed the module by perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install. I got plenty of these lines during the make test stage (this is just a sample): // Start My Sample Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe 9) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6477. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe 9) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6478. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6481. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe 0) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6484. Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe0) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/ Date/Manip.pm line 6487. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf 3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6488. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf 3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6488. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6489. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6489. Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/ Date/Manip.pm line 6497. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6501. //End My Sample Interestingly enough after all these messages the system reports: All tests successful. Files=31, Tests=842, 110 wallclock secs (101.07 cusr + 3.02 csys = 104.09 CPU) I then proceeded with make install and the installation looks successful. When I try to add a new adult member, this is what I got in my koha-error_log file (found in /var/log/httpd/) [Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Premature end of script headers: newmembe r.pl, referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add [Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine Ti meZone., referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add [Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 629, referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-b in/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add [Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Date::Manip::Date_Init('DateFormat =metric') called at /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/newmember.pl line 17, referer: http://172.22. 23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add Can anybody help in solving this problem. Thanks in advance. A. Rosunee University of Mauritius