#43959 [NEW]: DateTimeZone gets exception with HST10HDT timezone

From: hughmcl at hotmail dot com Operating system: CentOS 5.1 PHP version: 5.2.5 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: DateTimeZone gets exception with HST10HDT timezone Description: ------------ We were using part of the code below to work out time zone differences, however when HST10HDT was entered it was giving an exception, even although it's a valid timezone. Reproduce code: --------------- <? try { #DateTimeZone Object for TimeZone for this phone $tz = 'HST10HDT'; $cdto = new DateTimeZone($tz); } catch(Exception $e) { print "Exception!\n"; print " ---> ".$e->getMessage()."\n"; exit; } print "No Exception!\n"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- No Exception! Actual result: -------------- Exception! ---> DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (HST10HDT) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43959&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43959&r=mysqlcfg