#43856 [Asn->Bgs]: mktime and strftime use different timezones

ID: 43856 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: john at jcoppens dot com -Status: Assigned +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.5 Assigned To: derick New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation for you. Thank you for your interest in PHP. You need to install the pecl/timezonedb extension. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-01 01:29:25] john at jcoppens dot com That was a typo, it must be: America/Argentina/Cordoba John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-01 01:11:40] john at jcoppens dot com Output of script: PHP Strict Standards: date_default_timezone_get(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Buenos_Aires' for 'ARST/-2.0/DST' instead in /root/- on line 4 America/Buenos_Aires time() = 1201827963 strftime = PHP Strict Standards: strftime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Buenos_Aires' for 'ARST/-2.0/DST' instead in /root/- on line 9 PHP Strict Standards: mktime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Buenos_Aires' for 'ARST/-2.0/DST' instead in /root/- on line 9 23:06:03 ARST -0200 GMT offset = 10800 Do note that I have updated the zoneinfo of the system, and the way to define the time zone is now Amertica/Argentina/Cordoba I noticed that is some systems the Argentina directory was added, but the old BuenosAires etc files were not removed in the America level (BuenosAires, Cordoba, Jujuy, SanJuan, and a couple others. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-01-31 20:36:27] derick@php.net What's the output of this script: <?php error_reporting( E_ALL | E_STRICT ); echo date_default_timezone_get(), "\n"; echo "time() = " . time() . " \nstrftime = ", strftime("%T %Z %z") . " \nGMT offset = " . mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1970) . "\n"; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-01-15 15:17:14] john at jcoppens dot com Description: ------------ mktime() and strftime use different timezones... Reproduce code: --------------- echo "time() = " . time() . " \nstrftime = ", strftime("%T %Z %z") . " \nGMT offset = " . mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1970) . "\n";; Expected result: ---------------- time() = 1200409896 strftime = 13:11:36 ARST -0200 GMT offset = 7200 Actual result: -------------- time() = 1200409896 strftime = 13:11:36 ARST -0200 GMT offset = 10800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43856&edit=1