#22163 [Com]: mktime returns -3662

ID: 22163 Comment by: jim at babylamb dot com Reported By: andrew at strawberry-world dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: MacOS X 10.2 PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: I also get this bug on Mac OS X. I don't know how you can say it is bogus. OK, the time 0:0:0 on 30 Mar 03 doesn't exist. So why does it make sense to return -3662? If the input is invalid, mktime should return 0 or NULL surely? Anyway this weird behaviour should be documented. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-30 14:55:46] ma499 at doc dot ic dot ac dot uk I'm having similar problems with PHP 4.3.1 on FreeBSD 5.0-p6. So, it is unlikely to be Mac OS X -specific (but may be xBSD specific). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-13 02:48:59] andrew at strawberry-world dot com Thanks for the feedback. Will continue using mktime() at a time other than midnight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-12 13:12:57] sniper@php.net It's MacosX specific and not PHP bug. And you're better off when you don't use midnight for time anyway.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-12 10:08:28] andrew at strawberry-world dot com Ok, yes that sounds reasonable. I guess in the meantime instead of getting a time at midnight I should opt for another, say 11pm? I think I saw another post somewhere that recommends doing this to combat daylight savings time problems. And I'll wait and see whether it is something that can be addressed by PHP or whether as you say it is an OS issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-12 09:50:56] mgf@php.net OK! That actually seems reasonable. In Europe at least, the DST time-change is defined to take place at 01:00:00, so the hour from 01:00:00 to 01:59:59 does not exist on that date. So it look like the bug is that the times for the hour between 00:00:00 and 00:59:59 are wrong on a date when the clock goes back for DST. Now that we have this pinned down, I'm going to kick this to a developer who knows about the relevant bits of the PHP source to say whether this is something PHP can address, or whether it's a bug in the date/time handling of MacOS X that you'll just have to live with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/22163 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22163&edit=1