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I recently downloaded Emacs 24.4 and sometimes I see an "invalid date" error in my buffer.

When I am in eww, often I try to click (RET) a link and I get:

error in process sentinel: Invalid date: 01-Jan-2055 00:00:00.00 GMT

I thought it was an eww error, but today I was in c-mode and I saw

Error running timer `url-cookie-write-file': (error "Invalid date: 01-Jan-2055 00:00:00.00 GMT")

How can I fix this? I've not found any useful post with an "invalid date". Thanks!

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  • Find out what code you have loaded invokes function url-cookie-write-file from a timer. Use grep. Or bisect your init file recursively until you narrow it down to the culprit code.
    – Drew
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 2:40
  • Or use toggle-debug-on-error, it should give you a backtrace which will tell you where this function is called.
    – T. Verron
    Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 13:23
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    Emacs knows something that we don't.
    – phils
    Commented Dec 23, 2014 at 6:51

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https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog/issues/176

punchagan writes:

This bug seems to have been fixed on Emacs master. As a work around you could add the latest code of url-cookie-expired-p to your .emacs

(defun url-cookie-expired-p (cookie)
  "Return non-nil if COOKIE is expired."
  (let ((exp (url-cookie-expires cookie)))
    (and (> (length exp) 0)
     (condition-case ()
         (> (float-time) (float-time (date-to-time exp)))
       (error nil)))))
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