#33403 [Fbk->Opn]: date() function support for "Asia/Dubai" timezone formats on Win32 platform.

ID: 33403 User updated by: nickj-phpbugs at nickj dot org Reported By: nickj-phpbugs at nickj dot org -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: win32 only PHP Version: 5CVS-2005-06-20 Assigned To: derick New Comment: Building of 5.1 CVS snapshots on Windows seems to have been stalled today, so I have been unable to verify fix - will do this on Monday instead. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-06-30 23:41:41] derick@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip This should work now (but wait until the next snapshot is generated). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-06-20 01:49:52] sniper@php.net And assigned to derick. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-06-20 01:35:49] nickj-phpbugs at nickj dot org Description: ------------ [Excerpt from bug 20382, for a separate problem that should be logged as a new bug]: On the Win32 platform the date() format does not currently understand timezone names like "Asia/Dubai". Example code: <?php putenv("TZ=Australia/Adelaide"); $tStamp = mktime (17, 17, 17, 1, 1, 1971); print "tStamp=". date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $tStamp). "\n"; $strtotime_tstamp = strtotime("Monday", $tStamp); print "result=".date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $strtotime_tstamp)."\n"; print "wanted=Monday 00:00:00\n\n"; putenv("TZ=Asia/Baku"); $tStamp = mktime (17, 17, 17, 1, 1, 1971); print "tStamp=". date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $tStamp). "\n"; $strtotime_tstamp = strtotime("Monday", $tStamp); print "result=".date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $strtotime_tstamp)."\n"; print "wanted=Monday 00:00:00\n\n"; putenv("TZ=Europe/Brussels"); $tStamp = mktime (17, 17, 17, 1, 1, 1971); print "tStamp=". date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $tStamp). "\n"; $strtotime_tstamp = strtotime("Monday", $tStamp); print "result=".date("l Y-m-d H:i:s T", $strtotime_tstamp)."\n"; print "wanted=Monday 00:00:00\n\n"; ?> ====================================================== Results on a Windows2000 SP4 box are as follows: G:\PHP bugs\php5.1-dev\php5-win32-200506171830>php-cgi.exe ..\..\new-test.php Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.0-dev tStamp=Friday 1971-01-01 17:17:17 Aus result=Sunday 1971-01-03 14:30:00 Aus wanted=Monday 00:00:00 tStamp=Friday 1971-01-01 17:17:17 Asi result=Sunday 1971-01-03 20:00:00 Asi wanted=Monday 00:00:00 tStamp=Friday 1971-01-01 17:17:17 Eur result=Sunday 1971-01-03 23:00:00 Eur wanted=Monday 00:00:00 G:\PHP bugs\php5.1-dev\php5-win32-200506171830> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33403&edit=1