ERROR: Failed to create pair - failed to parse time string

[Alan DeKok]

On Feb 4, 2020, at 9:17 AM, Никита Борисенков <bna at sunlink.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hello, everything works for me, but the messages in the debug output confuse me.
> 
> (0) perl: ERROR: Failed to create pair - failed to parse time string "фев  4 2020 16:46:57 MSK"
> (0) perl: ERROR:     &request:Event-Timestamp = $RAD_REQUEST{'Event-Timestamp'} -> 'фев  4 2020 16:46:57 MSK'
> 
> I understand that the date string contains non-English letters.

  Yes.

> Is this attribute populated by the service itself?

  The attribute should be (a) a 32-bit integer, or (b) English text describing the date.

> What can I configure to prevent these errors?

  Set the LOCALE for FreeRADIUS to an English one.

  In short, date parsing is hard.  Very hard.  The only way we *know* it's correct is to parse what we know: English text.

  Alan DeKok.