#43132 [Com]: Date returned from exec command is formatted

ID: 43132 Comment by: b_ulrich at t-online dot de Reported By: jpozzoli at yahoo dot com Status: Feedback Bug Type: CGI related Operating System: Debian Linux 2.6.18-5-686 PHP Version: 5.2.0 New Comment: This isn't a Bug. If you take a look at the documentation for who you will find: Time stamps are listed according to the time zone rules specified by the TZ' environment variable, or by the system default rules if TZ' is not set. *Note Specifying the Time Zone with `TZ': (libc)TZ Variable. It seems that the environment of the user wich runs the Apache is different from the environment of your putty user... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-30 17:12:18] jani@php.net Yes, but you're using an unsupported PHP version. We only support the non-patched ones you can get as sources here at php.net. Some distros patch their PHP binaries (and often badly) so.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-30 16:03:29] jpozzoli at yahoo dot com I'll get the CVS, but just for your reference, here's a composite of several screens showing this "error", with the actual PHP code in the box to the right. http://www.flipnut.com/php-bug-43132.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-30 11:03:41] jani@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz For Windows (zip): http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-latest.zip For Windows (installer): http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-installer-latest.msi I can't reproduce this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-29 19:57:00] jpozzoli at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ This is on Debian PHP version 5.2.0-8+etch7 running on Apache/2.2.3 When trying to get the last reboot date of a linux server, from the command line I run "who -b". More precisely, I run "who -b|awk \'{print $3" "$4}\'" which, on the CLI, returns "2007-10-18 04:45". When I run the PHP command echo exec('who -b|awk \'{print $3" "$4}\''); I get the following result: Oct 18 Obviously, this has been formatted by PHP. To make sure of this, I tried this: $rebootdate = strftime("%m-%d-%Y %I:%M%p", strtotime($rebootdateexec)); This get's closer. It outputs "10-18-2007 12:00AM". So it got the date but missed the time. Reproduce code: --------------- $rebootdateexec = exec('who -b|awk \'{print $3" "$4}\''); echo $rebootdateexec; $rebootdate = strftime("%m-%d-%Y %I:%M%p", strtotime($rebootdateexec)); echo $rebootdate; Expected result: ---------------- $rebootdateexec = 2007-10-18 04:45 $rebootdate = 10-18-2007 04:45AM Actual result: -------------- $rebootdateexec = Oct 18 $rebootdate = 10-18-2007 12:00AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43132&edit=1