Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63777&edit=1
ID: 63777
Updated by: ahar...@php.net
Reported by: kavi at postpro dot net
Summary: DateTime obj in Dec 2012 in Australia/South TZ
reports 'CST' time zone abbrev
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: OS X, CentOS, Debian
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Unfortunately, as a Western Australian who's suffered through our state
government's various flip-flops on daylight saving, I'm much more familiar with
this than I want to be â the Olson database is technically correct here, as
every state legislates or proclaims daylight saving time as "summer time", so
the S part of the CST abbreviation is correct. Beyond that, I think that the
Olson notes and related mailing list posts lay out the case for not prefixing
the abbreviations reasonably well.
Realistically, any change to this would need to happen upstream anyway â I
doubt we want to start patching tzdata to differ from the mainline that almost
everyone else deploys.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-12-15 04:38:26] ras...@php.net
Two things confuse me about this bug report. Surely it is summer in Australia
right now, so why would you expect ACDT? And second, Olson has never used the
'A'
prefix and as far as I know most places don't. There is a long discussion on
this
in the Olson australasia file. I'll leave this as an exercise for the
interested
to look up. If you go to Google and search for "time in Adelaide" you get a CST
time just like PHP provides.
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[2012-12-15 04:17:30] s...@php.net
Testcase confirmed with 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 from git. All use Olson 2012.10
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[2012-12-14 23:43:45] kavi at postpro dot net
See #50276 for a tangentially related bug about the Australian timezone
abbreviations.
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[2012-12-14 23:42:34] kavi at postpro dot net
Description:
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Tried this on 5.3.3, 5.3.6 and 5.3.10, the latest available from the various OS
vendors we have. I have not yet successfully compiled 5.4.x to test there.
This occurs with the 2012.10 tzdata installed and verified with phpinfo().
Test script:
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$date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimezone('Australia/South'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s T');
Expected result:
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2012-12-15 10:10:13 ACDT
Actual result:
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2012-12-15 10:10:13 CST
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