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
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"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.