Bug #51613 [Opn->Bgs]: Ugly Error in date() and strtotime()

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51613&edit=1 ID: 51613 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: contact at vladrotariu dot com Summary: Ugly Error in date() and strtotime() -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10 PHP Version: 5.3.2 New Comment: We are happy to tell you that you just discovered Daylight Savings Time. For more information see: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html Instead of using mktime/date consider using gmmktime and gmdate which do not suffer from DST. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-20 11:22:20] contact at vladrotariu dot com Description: ------------ When you try to create a succession of months using the following code, you will notice a very ugly bug that results in skipping months Test script: --------------- for( $i = strtotime("2004-10-01" ); $i <= mktime(); $i += (24*60*60 * cal_days_in_month( CAL_GREGORIAN, date("m", $i), date("Y", $i) )) ) { $year_month = date("Ymd H:i:s", $i); echo "<br />".$year_month; } Expected result: ---------------- 20041001 00:00:00 20041101 00:00:00 20041201 00:00:00 Actual result: -------------- 20041001 00:00:00 20041031 23:00:00 20041201 23:00:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51613&edit=1