#36599 [Opn->Csd]: DATE_W3C format constant incorrect

ID: 36599 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: d dot begley at uws dot edu dot au -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Solaris 9 (SPARC) PHP Version: 5.1.2 New Comment: This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-03 06:15:39] d dot begley at uws dot edu dot au Description: ------------ The new date() format constants introduced in PHP 5.1.1: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php include a format called DATE_W3C, for which the example shown is: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+0000 Whilst this matches the output of live code in PHP, the actual format of the timezone offset is missing a colon (as per the oft-quoted W3C tech note). I know adding a colon seems "wrong", but that's what the W3C doc includes: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime I came across this as the "standard" W3C format (I know the doc itself isn't a standard) because other specs (such as Dublin Core Metadata) refer to the above URL for format information - therefore, the colon must be "significant", no matter how "wrong" it seems. Reproduce code: --------------- date( DATE_W3C, getlastmod() ) Expected result: ---------------- 2006-03-03T15:41:46+11:00 Actual result: -------------- 2006-03-03T15:41:46+1100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36599&edit=1