note 41324 added to function.strtotime

It appears that the strtotime() function returns a value of "-1" for the hour that is skipped during the summer daylight savings time (2:00 am on first Sunday of April). For example if you enter the following: <?php $new_dt = strtotime("2004-04-04 02:00:00"); if ($new_dt == -1) echo "Could not convert date-time!"; echo date("m/d/Y H:i:s", $new_dt); ?> will print: ----------- Could not convert date-time 12/31/1969 15:59:59 Any time between 02:00:00 and 2:59:59, which is the hour we "spring forward", strtotime() will produce the bad result. This is NOT true for the "fall back" on the last Sunday of October at 2:00 am when the clocks are set back an hour, which produces a correct result. This can cause problems if you are storing dates in GMT time, for example, in your database, and need to convert them to a unix timestamp for calculations in your PHP scripts. GMT time does not change during daylight savings time. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+41324 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+41324&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+41324&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php