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Bug #33671 sun_rise and sun_set don't return a GMT timestamp if one passes an offset
Submitted: 2005-07-13 00:53 UTC Modified: 2006-01-04 22:41 UTC
From: golf at dds dot nl Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2005-11-07 (cvs) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-07-13 00:53 UTC] golf at dds dot nl 
Description:
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With my current version of PHP5 (5.0.4-0.6.sarge.1 (Debian GNU/Linux) I run into an error if I use date_sunrise and date_sunset. This happens when I pass an GMT offset and results in a timestamp that has an offset of +1 hour to the actual sun set/rise on that date. Since timestamps are GMT/UTC and not bound to an timezone other that GMT/UTC this is wrong. I say this since I believe the GMT offset one can pass to the before mentioned functions is used in the calculation and the functions should return a timestamp like any other so it can be used by date and gmdate as those functions require a GMT/UTC timestamp...

B.t.w. I use the max difference for some further calculations in my script, so there for the lage difference between astro and official sunset's/rises...

Reproduce code:
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$latitude = 28 + (1/60*17) + (1/60/60*54);
$longitude = (-(16 + (1/60*30) + (1/60/60*34)));
$astro = 108;
$official = (90 + (1/60*50));

echo "Local Tenerife time<br>\n";
echo "sunriseAstro = " . gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", date_sunrise(1121208238, SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP, $long, $lat, $astro, 1) + 60*60) . "<br>\n";
echo "sunriseOffical = " . gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", date_sunrise(1121208238, SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP, $long, $lat, $official , 1) + 60*60) . "<br>\n";
echo "sunsetOffical = " . gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", date_sunset(1121208238, SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP, $long, $lat, $official, 1) + 60*60) . "<br>\n";
echo "sunsetAstro = " . gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", date_sunset(1121208238, SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP, $long, $lat, $astro, 1) + 60*60) . "<p>\n";


Expected result:
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Local Tenerife time
sunriseAstro = Jul 12 2005 05:47:50
sunriseOffical = Jul 12 2005 07:02:02
sunsetOffical = Jul 12 2005 19:09:17
sunsetAstro = Jul 12 2005 20:23:27

Actual result:
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Local Tenerife time
sunriseAstro = Jul 12 2005 06:47:50
sunriseOffical = Jul 12 2005 08:02:02
sunsetOffical = Jul 12 2005 20:09:17
sunsetAstro = Jul 12 2005 21:23:27

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 [2005-07-13 01:08 UTC] golf at dds dot nl 
After re-reading the source in the bug-report I now see that I passed $long and $lat where I should have passed $longitude, $latitude. I changed the code and now every thing seems oke... 

Sorry for the hassle made by this report but I realy missed this typo.

Regards,

Golf

P.S. I tryd to add a comment to this bugreport (twice) but it didn't show up, so if there are more than one...
 [2005-07-13 02:35 UTC] golf at dds dot nl 
I have also swaped lat and long and this solves my basic problem that the hours where wrong, but one can say that the bug is still there since my first suspision is correct, GMT offset is not used to calculate anything, it changes the timestamp to something that looks and feels like a timestamp but isn't since it isn't a GMT date/time combo but the GMT date/time combo + the offset. Since this isn't standard for timestamp I changed the status of this Bug to open...

The algorithm looks to work acourding to this: http://williams.best.vwh.net/sunrise_sunset_algorithm.htm
Where one can read the last line to see it is just added...

My objection to the way the functions work probably won't make a change list, but it is something to add as a note to the manual becouse it is confusing (At least to me and perhaps more people).
 [2005-07-13 07:45 UTC] derick@php.net 
Duplicate of: #32820
 [2005-07-15 15:11 UTC] golf at dds dot nl 
I don't think this is the same bug as #32820. There seems to be a difference in that one doesn't get A GMT timestamp but one with an offset of +1 if one passes an offset to date_sunrise and date_sunset. This means that one seems to get a timestamp, but this isn't a timestamp. And with the other bugreport there seems to be a logic error, not a timestamp error.

As before, when I use both functions I aspect to get a timestamp back for witch the timezone is GMT* and not in the timezone for witch I added the offset to the functions...

*As is normal with a timestamp
 [2006-01-04 22:41 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
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