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Bug #41912 date() interprets Unix timestamp as GMT and converts it to the default timezone
Submitted: 2007-07-06 08:21 UTC Modified: 2007-07-11 21:02 UTC
From: ron@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.3 OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2007-07-06 08:21 UTC] ron@php.net
Description:
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date() interprets a Unix timestamp as GMT and converts it to the default timezone. In my opinion it should not convert timezones.

(bug report requested by Derick Rethans).

Reproduce code:
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<?php

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Amsterdam');

$date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('GMT'));

echo 'DateTime::format(): '.$date->format('Ymd, H:i:s')."\n";
echo 'date() of unixtime: '.date('Ymd, H:i:s', $date->format('U'))."\n";

?>

Expected result:
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DateTime::format(): 20070706, 07:38:45
date() of unixtime: 20070706, 07:38:45


Actual result:
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DateTime::format(): 20070706, 07:38:45
date() of unixtime: 20070706, 09:38:45


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 [2007-07-11 21:02 UTC] derick@php.net
I checked this now, and it is not a bug. If you convert to a timestamp there is no more associated timezone possible. The date object keeps this normally - but it's impossible to attach this just to a number.

If you add the timezone as output, you will see the difference:

<?php

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Amsterdam');

$date = new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('GMT'));

echo 'DateTime::format(): '.$date->format('Ymd, H:i:s T')."\n";
echo 'date() of unixtime: '.date('Ymd, H:i:s T', $date->format('U'))."\n";

?>

derick@kossu:~$ php bug41912.php
DateTime::format(): 20070711, 21:00:26 UTC
date() of unixtime: 20070711, 23:00:26 CEST

 
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