ID: 49379 Updated by: der...@php.net Reported By: cyberdisyan at gmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Ubuntu - Linux PHP Version: 5.2.10 New Comment:
No need to change 1000s of lines of code, just tell PHP that you want to use UTC: date_default_timezone_set( 'UTC' ); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-27 09:25:03] cyberdisyan at gmail dot com Dear derick, Thanks for your prompt reply ... happy that it's not a bug ... but unhappy to change thousands of code line :( You can close the ticket :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-27 09:13:55] der...@php.net We are happy to tell you that you just discovered Daylight Savings Time. For more information see: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html Instead of using mktime/date consider using gmmktime and gmdate which do not suffer from DST. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-27 01:20:30] cyberdisyan at gmail dot com Description: ------------ When trying to use date(), it return sometime a GMT 02:00 and just one line below GMT 01:00 without any reason ! Reproduce code: --------------- echo date("c",(int)1255903200)."<BR>"; echo date("c",(int)1256508000)."<BR>"; Expected result: ---------------- 2009-10-19T00:00:00+01:00 2009-10-26T00:00:00+01:00 Actual result: -------------- 2009-10-19T00:00:00+02:00 2009-10-25T23:00:00+01:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49379&edit=1