note 22501 deleted from function.mktime by sniper

From: Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:11:44 +0000
Subject: note 22501 deleted from function.mktime by sniper
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Note Submitter: admin@jamuk.com ---- Be careful when using mktime with the date function to create past and future dates in countries where the clocks adjust for daylight savings time. All the examples here use mktime ( 0,0,0, ... which will give you problems as daylight savings time goes out of effect. If you now use date("M-d-Y", mktime ( 0,0,0, ... in a loop to generate days over a period where the clock goes back an hour, you will generate that date twice! Avoid this by creating days at lunchtime rather than midnight with mktime ( 11,0,0, ...

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