#22163 [Bgs]: mktime returns -3662

ID: 22163 Updated by: derick@php.net 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 can not reproduce this on MacOSX, it works fine for me (with both 4.3.0 and 5.0.0-dev): bash-2.05a$ sapi/cli/php ~/22163.php 1049000400<br>23:59:59 29-Mar = 1049000399; 01:01:03 30-Mar = 1049004063bash-2.05a $ uname -a Darwin iMac.local. 6.6 Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-17 04:44:23] jim at babylamb dot com 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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