#30678 [Opn->Bgs]: strtotime() has problems with Halloween

ID: 30678 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: alexbo at delphian dot org -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: RedHat 9 (Kernel 2.4.20-20.9smp) PHP Version: 5.0.1 New Comment: We are happy to tell you that you just discovered Daylight Savings Time. For more information see: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html Instead of using mktime/date consider using gmmktime and gmdate which do not suffer from DST. . Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-03 20:27:21] alexbo at delphian dot org Description: ------------ Halloween, according to strtotime(), is both Sunday and Monday this year. I haven't checked other years, but I just ran into this. Uh... that's all I've got for you. Reproduce code: --------------- echo("<p>"); echo(date("d_M_y",mktime(0,0,0,10,30,04))); echo("</p><p>"); echo(date("d_M_y",strtotime("tuesday",mktime(0,0,0,10,30,04)))); echo("</p><p>"); echo(date("d_M_y",strtotime("monday",mktime(0,0,0,10,30,04)))); echo("</p><p>"); echo(date("d_M_y",strtotime("sunday",mktime(0,0,0,10,30,04)))); echo("</p>"); Expected result: ---------------- 30_Oct_04 02_Nov_04 01_Nov_04 31_Oct_04 Actual result: -------------- 30_Oct_04 01_Nov_04 31_Oct_04 31_Oct_04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30678&edit=1