Re: Re[4]: [PHP] 28th of March - PHP Problems!

"Richard Davey" <rich@launchcode.co.uk> wrote in message news:854743823.20040305125210@launchcode.co.uk... > Hello Jason, > > Friday, March 5, 2004, 12:27:46 PM, you wrote: > > JW> I get the correct output (ie Sun Mar 28 2004). But quoting your previous post, > JW> how did you get: "Sat Mar 27 2004 for me, which is exactly what it should"? > > Because I over-looked that part :) but more importantly, upon > reflection, it has still done what I would have expected because it's > a BST date and PHP hasn't been told about it, so it's left to its own > devices. > > "If it's unknown, PHP tries to figure it out itself. This can cause > unexpected (but not incorrect) results." > > echo date("D M d Y", gmmktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 28, 2004, 1)); > > Will give me Sun Mar 28 2004, because its a GMT date falling into BST. > > -- > Best regards, > Richard Davey > http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html Thanks for your replies, Heres some interesting info: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26111