#36338 [Bgs]: Integer Timestamps are not enough!

ID: 36338 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: carsten dot moldenhauer at mailbox dot tu-dresden dot d Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.1.2 New Comment: Also the new date/time functionality does support 64 bits... except that it's not enabled yet Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-02-09 14:51:25] tony2001@php.net This is OS limitation and PHP has nothing to do with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-02-09 12:27:36] carsten dot moldenhauer at mailbox dot tu-dresden dot d Description: ------------ Hello PHP Team. I recently discovered a problem with standard timestamps. They are stored as integers. Integers have a range up to 2147483647. date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", 2147483647 ) results in: 2038-01-19 04:14:07 If you got a date after 2038 in text format and want to convert it to integer, you will get back 2147483647. So you are back in 2038 again. I would dislike to see all the time related PHP applications break on the above date. Is there any possibility to switch timestamps to long? (btw, the same occurs with dates before 1901-12-13 21:45:52 which is date( "Y-m-d H:i:s, -2147483648 )) I am looking forward to your answers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36338&edit=1