Bug #76624 [NEW]: date_create_from_format doesn't respect "T" Timezone format character

From: jalaj dot chhalotre at gmail dot com Operating system: Ubuntu 0.16.04.1 PHP version: 7.0.30 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:date_create_from_format doesn't respect "T" Timezone format character Description: ------------ When T timezone format character is used to specify timezone in date_create_from_format() function, wrong time (with respect to epoch) is generated. In test script attached, two different epoch times are generated if 'T' and 'e' timezone format characters are used. However using e format character returns correct time. Test script: --------------- # date_string = "2018-07-13 15:30:15 IST" = "2018-07-13 15:30:15 Asia/Kolkata" $date1 = new DateTime('2018-07-13 15:30:15', new DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata')); echo $date1->format('Y-m-d H:i:s T'); //2018-07-13 15:30:15 IST echo $str1=$date1->format('U'); //1531476015 $date2=date_create_from_format('Y-m-d H:i:s T', '2018-07-13 15:30:15 IST'); echo $str2=$date2->format('U'); //1531488615 /* $str1 IS NOT equal to $str2 but date1=date2 */ echo $date1->format('Y-m-d H:i:s e'); //2018-07-13 15:30:15 Asia/Kolkata echo $str3=$date1->format('U'); //1531476015 $date2=date_create_from_format('Y-m-d H:i:s e', '2018-07-13 15:30:15 Asia/Kolkata'); echo $str4=$date2->format('U'); //1531476015 /* $str3 IS equal to $str4 as date1=date3 */ -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76624&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76624&r=mysqlcfg