Doc #78835 [NEW]: Ambiguous definition of format character

From: filipbengtsson at live dot se Operating system: Windows 7 PHP version: 7.1.33 Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Ambiguous definition of format character Description: ------------ --- From manual page: https://php.net/function.date --- The manual page says that the format character O (capital letter o) represents "difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours", but the example says +0200, which I would describe as is 100 times greater than the time difference (and what it, after some testing, seems to actually do). It could also be interpreted as GMT offset by 200 hours (little over a week). The bigger mystery is what the two trailing zeros do. I asumed they represent centiminutes (going from 00-99) since the documentation doesn't say anything about minutes. By running the following script, they turned out to be minutes (00-59). Test script: --------------- <?php // Set timezone to UTC-03:30 date_default_timezone_set("America/St_Johns"); echo date("O"); ?> Expected result: ---------------- -0350 Actual result: -------------- -0330 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78835&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78835&r=mysqlcfg