#22311 [NEW]: Time zone unclear in bug reports

From: j-devenish at users dot sourceforge dot net Operating system: N/A PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: Website problem Bug description: Time zone unclear in bug reports Hi, I find it unclear what timezone the bugs.php.net reports use. For example, this bug will have a 'submitted at' timestamp which could look something like "20 Feb 8:16am". It's not clear to me what timezone this would be in. It is certainly something vastly different from my timezone. I have always wondered about this but never asked, because I noticed that at the bottom of bugs.php.net report pages there is the note "Last updated: X X X X CST". Is that to say that the bug reports themselves are listed using "CST"? I finally tried to track this down and with a bit of man page reading and Google use, found that it probably corresponds to the POSIX CST6CDT timezone, which would be either GMT-6h or GMT-5h. However, I'm still not clear which of those two the PHP bugs are in. Having spend this time tracking it down and not getting an answer, I suspect this is (in a sense) a user interface bug. If the bugs are reported in CST, could you either explain CST or emit times in GMT/UTC please? Either way, if you could put the timezone label after the submitted/modified information, that would clarify the situation somewhat (even if you were to resort to saying UTC-5/6 [pick one :] rather than just using UTC). This arose for me most recently because I find I cannot work out when e-mail was sent relative to when bugs/comments were posted. In fact, part of the reason I'm submitting this bug is so that I can compare my current time with what the subsequent bug report says. So I guess I'll have the answer to my question, soon! -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22311&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22311&r=gnused