Bug #63777 [NEW]: DateTime obj in Dec 2012 in Australia/South TZ reports 'CST' time zone abbrev

From: kavi at postpro dot net Operating system: OS X, CentOS, Debian PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:DateTime obj in Dec 2012 in Australia/South TZ reports 'CST' time zone abbrev Description: ------------ Tried this on 5.3.3, 5.3.6 and 5.3.10, the latest available from the various OS vendors we have. I have not yet successfully compiled 5.4.x to test there. This occurs with the 2012.10 tzdata installed and verified with phpinfo(). Test script: --------------- $date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimezone('Australia/South')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s T'); Expected result: ---------------- 2012-12-15 10:10:13 ACDT Actual result: -------------- 2012-12-15 10:10:13 CST -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63777&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=63777&r=mysqlcfg