Bug #81267 [Opn->Nab]: Instantiating DateTime with unix timestamps does not set UTC as Timezone

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81267&edit=1 ID: 81267 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported by: heiglandreas@php.net Summary: Instantiating DateTime with unix timestamps does not set UTC as Timezone -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: 3v4l.org PHP Version: 8.0.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is for BC reasons, and this issue tracker is also not the right places, as this is parsed by timelib: https://github.com/derickr/timelib/blob/master/parse_date.re#L1126-L1129 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-16 13:45:41] heiglandreas@php.net Description: ------------ Currently creating a new DateTime(Immutable) Object using a timestamp does set the timezone as +00:00 (Type 1). Expected outcome would be to have the timestamp be set to UTC (type 3). Why? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time the unix timestamp is always thought to be a representation of a DateTime in UTC. Having the timezone set to a simple offset does not reflect that. Even though the Unix timestamp has its own way of handling leap seconds and even though there are thoughts on coupling the unix timestamp to a (not yet generally used) "International time" (which would be UTC without leap seconds) the timestamp is generally considered to be a UTC representation, not just of offset +00:00. See : * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time * https://3v4l.org/f7bBe Test script: --------------- <?php $f = new DateTimeImmutable('@1234567'); var_dump($f->getTimezone()); Expected result: ---------------- object(DateTimeZone)#2 (2) { ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(3) "UTC" } Actual result: -------------- object(DateTimeZone)#2 (2) { ["timezone_type"]=> int(1) ["timezone"]=> string(6) "+00:00" } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81267&edit=1