Bug #77891 [NEW]: Epoch time function strftime('%s') call returns empty on Windows but works on L

From: phpbugreport at mailinator dot com Operating system: Windows PHP version: 7.3.4 Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Epoch time function strftime('%s') call returns empty on Windows but works on L Description: ------------ Hi, Epoch time function strftime('%s') call returns empty on Windows but works on Linux. Tested PHP builds: PHP 7.3.2 (cli) (built: Feb 5 2019 23:14:21) ( NTS MSVC15 (Visual C++ 2017) x86) PHP 7.3.4 (cli) (built: Apr 2 2019 22:13:15) ( NTS MSVC15 (Visual C++ 2017) x86) PHP 7.0.33-0+deb9u3 (cli) (built: Mar 8 2019 10:01:24) ( NTS ) Cannot strftime('%s') be defined as alias to time()? If not can it be explicitly written in the manual (i.e. doesn't work in Windows). Thanks. Test script: --------------- <?php echo "time()=".time()."\n"; echo "strftime('%s')=".strftime('%s')."\n"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- time()=1555236075 strftime('%s')=1555236075 Actual result: -------------- time()=1555236100 strftime('%s')= -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77891&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=77891&r=mysqlcfg