note 106795 deleted from function.time by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:16:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 106795 deleted from function.time by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Anonymous
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In response to these two notes:
1. php/hotblocks/nl 25-Feb-2011 10:40
2. Yi 23-Feb-2011 04:29
The function time() already returns time in UTC. There is no need to convert it to GMT.
This link from 2002 explains it with detail:
http://www.mail-archive.com/php-general@lists.php.net/msg64176.html
"...timestamp is *always in GMT*, it returns the time since 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00, full stop,
period, end of story. In other words, timestamps operate in a single timezone, and it's up to
anything else that works with a timestamp to do the timezone (and daylight-savings)
corrections..."