dashboard activity notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered

[ruud@…]

Hi all,

I stumbled upon this notice in the new Dashboard Activity panel, but couldn't find any related bug (yet) so posting it here anyway.

Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in /htdocs/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 603

Looking at it, it seems that
$time = get_the_time( 'U' ); shouldn't be used in this case, because $time will be a string instead of an integer.

On the next line:
if ( date( 'Y-m-d', $time ) == $today ) {
$time is used, and should be an numeric, and clearly isn't.

I'm guessing that get_the_time( 'U' ); is used to receive the current Unix epoch.
If that is supposed to be the case, then the patch added will solve this.

[ruud@…]

wp_dashboard_recent_posts patch

[markoheijnen]

The patch doesn't work since the function is used to retrieve the time of a post and not the current time.
I think it's fine that get_the_time() returns a string. But we maybe could use intval or strtotime

[ruud@…]

Ah I see, that makes sense indeed.
get_the_time() is supposed to return a string, or was is recently changed as well?

[ruud@…]

OK, I found the problem: there is a conflict with the qTranslate plugin (it probably hooks into the get_the_time or get_post_time filters.. disactivating this plugin alleviates the problem.

This bug is no longer!

[ruud@…]

note to Marko: dacht al, dit kan niet waar zijn..