Re: mktime Problem

Having JUST had date/time problems, this one caught my eye. However, running your code, I always get the #1 result - never got #2 yet. Could this be a hardware problem perhaps? What version PHP/OS/hardware are you using? FCP Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure why but the mktime function on my php installation consistently shows > different values at erratic intervals... > > For eg when I call : mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998) > > the result i get is either 883584000 or 883641600... > > I was trying to debug why my cookies will not be accepted by IE... > > a code block as such : > --------- > $myTime = mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998); > print "<br>My Time is $myTime"; > echo date ("<br>M d Y H:i:s", $myTime); > echo gmdate ("<br>M d Y H:i:s", $myTime); > > --------- > > results in these 2 different sets of results : > > 1) > My Time is 883641600 > Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 > Jan 01 1998 08:00:00 > > 2) > My Time is 883584000 > Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 > Dec 31 1997 16:00:00 > > and the results are *consistently* one of these 2... there doesn't seem to be any ordering > between the 2 result sets... they seem to interchange randomly... > > Would greatly appreciate it if anybody could tell me what's going on... > > Thanks > Wong -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961