#41991 [Opn->Bgs]: Translating from a timezone to itself does not return 0

ID: 41991 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: Arne dot Heizmann at csr dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php The function returns the offset to *GMT*, not to each other. This is also mentioned in the documentation: http://no.php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-offset-get.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-13 13:27:10] Arne dot Heizmann at csr dot com Description: ------------ Translating from a timezone to itself does not return 0. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $dateTimeZone1 = new DateTimeZone ("Europe/London"); $dateTimeZone2 = new DateTimeZone ('Europe/London'); $dateTime1 = new DateTime ("now", $dateTimeZone1); $dateTime2 = new DateTime ("now", $dateTimeZone2); echo $dateTimeZone1->getOffset($dateTime2) . "\n"; echo $dateTimeZone2->getOffset($dateTime1) . "\n"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- 0 0 Actual result: -------------- 3600 3600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41991&edit=1