Bug #53764 [NEW]: date with timestamp = 0

From: Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.2.17 Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:date with timestamp = 0 Description: ------------ Hello. I have catched strange behavior of php. If 2nd argument of function date(or strftime) is 0, this function add some hours to result. For example, in Moscow they add 3 hours (difference between GMT). Is it true ? Test script: --------------- echo date('c', time()) . "\n"; echo date('c', time() - time()) . "\n"; Expected result: ---------------- 2011-01-17T09:34:00+03:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+03:00 Actual result: -------------- 2011-01-17T09:34:00+03:00 1970-01-01T03:00:00+03:00 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53764&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53764&r=mysqlcfg