Re: Bug #13288 Updated: date() works incorrectly for first week of April 2001

There is a bug in the windows time routines, that shows up when daylight savings starts on April 1. It affects the first week of April. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/6/61.ASP SeanECoates@yahoo.ca wrote: > > ID: 13288 > User updated by: SeanECoates@yahoo.ca > Reported By: SeanECoates@yahoo.ca > Old Status: Closed > Status: Open > Bug Type: Date/time related > Old Operating System: Win2000, Linux > Operating System: Win2000 > PHP Version: 4.0.6 > New Comment: > > Seems to be a windows issue: > > Here's my test script: > <?php $date_stamp=986184000; echo $date_stamp ." = ". date("M d, Y, H:i:s > A",$date_stamp) ?> > > Output: > -Windows: > 986184000 = Apr 02, 2001, 00:00:00 AM > -Linux (Linux linux1 2.2.19 #1 Tue Jul 3 09:26:00 EST 2001 i686 unknown) > 986184000 = Apr 01, 2001, 23:00:00 PM > > Is this a Daylight Savings Time issue? Why only on windows? .. sorry for the confusion. (and > the really stupid initial bug report examples (-: ) > > S > > Previous Comments: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [2001-09-13 13:32:12] SeanECoates@yahoo.ca > > I'm dumb... > Let me get back on this.. might be a windows issue. > > Sorry. > > S > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [2001-09-13 13:13:18] SeanECoates@yahoo.ca > > I hope I haven't overlooked something (again), but this just popped up, and is hurting my > current application, big-time. > > PHP is reporting certain timestamps as the wrong date (specifically, I've found the first > week of April 2001 the be erraneous). I noticed that MySQL was converting a specific set of > timestamps to dates differently than my php app. So, I tested against perl as well, and PHP is > definitely doing SOMETHING weird.. > > Here are the results: > > [mysql] > SELECT 986184000 AS unix_time, > FROM_UNIXTIME(986184000) AS date_stamp, > UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-04-01 23:00:00') AS unix_time > --> unix_time=98618400, date_stamp='2001-04-01 23:00:00', unix_time=98618400 > > [php] > sean@linux1:~$ echo '<?php $date_stamp=986184000; echo $date_stamp ." = ". > date("M d, Y, H:i:s A",$date_stamp) ."\n" ?>' | php -q > 986184000 = Apr 01, 2001, 23:00:00 PM > > [perl] > sean@linux1:~$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(986184000)' > Sun Apr 1 23:00:00 2001 > > Again, I'm really sorry to waste your collective time if this is my mistake. > > S > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Edit this bug report at 9A< > ���7����Uhttp://bugs.php.net/?id=13288&edit=1 > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net