bug#76875: 30.1; ERC 5.6.0.30.1: ERC logging doesn't include calendar dates anymore
"J.P." <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:07:03 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.erc.general |
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"J.P." <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > [email protected] writes: > >> ERC logs on my local disk do not contain the calendar date strings >> anymore. Before, I was using ERC that was included in emacs 29.4, and >> that version of ERC used to include a calendar date timestamp on the >> logs whenever I login to IRC networks and rooms using ERC. That string >> used to be of the form: [Thu Feb 27 2025]. But, again, since updating >> to emacs 30.1 on debian bookworm-backports, that calendar string date >> stopped being included to my local text log files. > > I was indeed able to reproduce this. In the future, please try to > include an informal recipe that mentions any configuration needed to > trigger the issue, such as the following: > > 1. $ HOME=$(mktemp -d) emacs -Q > 2. (require 'erc) > (setopt erc-log-write-after-insert t) > (push 'log erc-modules) > 3. M-x erc RET ... RET > 4. /join #test > 5. M-x eshell RET > 6. $ head $HOME/log/* > > In any case, this issue has hopefully been fixed on master: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=3db65ff5 > Closing due to reported fix and lack of further activity in over a year.