You might want to consider removing the leading zeroes, this post is there
in the php manual and has been useful to me.

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jchen3625 AT yahoo DOT com (25-Aug-2002 03:33)

beware, arguments with leading zeros are treated as zeros.
that is,
"mktime(0,0,0,10,09,2002)" == 09/30/2002, whereas
"mktime(0,0,0,10,9,2002)" == 10/09/2002.
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Naintara


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 25 June 2003 14:58

[....]

> Here is what's weired.
>
> I use these lines to get the specifics:
> $StartHour = substr("$StartTime", 0, 2);
> $StartMinute = substr("$StartTime", 3, 2);
> $EndHour = substr("$EndTime", 0, 2);
> $EndMinute = substr("$EndTime", 3, 2);
> list($SMonth, $SDay, $SYear) = split('/', $StartDate);
> list($EMonth, $EDay, $EYear) = split('/', $EndDate);
>
> I then do this:
> $SUnixTime = mktime($StartHour, $StartMinute, 00, $SMonth,
> $SDay, $SYear);
>
> This is what's being sent to the mktime:
> (17,00,00,06,23,2003)
>
> This is what it ouputs:
> 1056405600
>
> Which is not technically correct.  That is the unix time stamp for the
> starting our in Zulu time (greenwich mean time) which is
> currently 5 hours
> ahead of my timezone.
>
> Can anyone tell me why mktime is automatically converting to
> zulu time?

UNIX timestamps are *always* GMT -- it's the routines that process them that
do timezone (and DST) conversion.  To prove this, run the following on your
server:

<?php
   $timestamp = 1056405600;
   echo "GMT = ", gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s"), "<br />\n";
   echo "local = ", date("Y-m-d H:i:s"), "<br />\n";
?>

Also see the manual page for gmdate() at http://www.php.net/gmdate which
shows a very similar script as its first example.

Cheers!

Mike

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