Hi, Newbie here - but running a phpBB site since 2004. Time to move on. I’ve had some success in converting my database in my Discourse test environment, but I’ve got several warnings like this: WARN – : Bad date/time value “0000:00:00 00:00:00”: mon out of range It’s been suggested that I repla…

Thanks, Jay. Still, I wonder why the script flagged them; and I wonder what that means for the post. Here’s a snippet from the import log, with warnings: 18112 / 24451 ( 74.1%) [292 items/min]Do you happen to know, for this example, if 18112 is the phpBB post_id? If so, you are quite right - th…

[image] shortmort37: Do you happen to know, for this example, if 18112 is the phpBB post_id? it is not. You can see the post ids in post.custom_fields['import_id']. But that’s just a counter of how many posts (or topics?) have been converted. [image] shortmort37: I wonder why the script…

[image] pfaffman: If you really care, you can modify the script to print the phpBB ID when it gets such an error, then you can track down which phpBB posts are generating these errors and look at those records to see what’s happening. This is worth pursuing, methinks. [image] pfaffman: I…

Date/time warnings in phpBB3 conversion to Discourse

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 14, 2026, 2:56pm 2

They got imported, I’m fairly certain. I just ignore these.

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Date/time warnings in phpBB3 conversion to Discourse

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