#10550 [Com]: mktime() returns -1 for certain valid dates

ID: 10550 Comment by: giovani-spagnolo@procergs.rs.gov.br Reported By: chris.php@bolt.cx Status: Closed Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (29/04/2001) Assigned To: derick New Comment: It´s really a FreeBSD´s daylight savings bug. Try: mktime(0,0,0,10,13,2002) and you´ll get -1. 13/10/2001 is the first day in daylight savings time. This problem also occurs on windows98. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-09-09 06:02:30] derick@php.net I said closed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-09-09 06:02:17] derick@php.net Closing this one, as it seems an issue with FreeBSD's daylight savings time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-29 15:11:04] hholzgra@php.net daylight saving related??? (u ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-29 11:27:18] avsm@php.net It doesn't occur under OpenBSD; it looks like a FreeBSD issue (happens on 4.x-STABLE as well). This came up recently on the Horde/Chora list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=chora&m=98622313207343&w=2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-29 11:20:53] derick@php.net I could not reproduce this under Linux. Will try later with OpenBSD. As PHP uses the underlying C functions for this, this might actaully be a problem with FreeBSD. Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/10550 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10550&edit=1