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Bug #13885 gmdate("r"); adds timezone instead of 'GMT'.
Submitted: 2001-10-31 06:45 UTC Modified: 2001-11-03 07:43 UTC
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Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: Windows 2000 SP2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-10-31 06:45 UTC] root at mediamonks dot net 
The 'r' format string doesn't work as expected:

print(date("r", 1));

Prints: "Thu, 1 Jan 1970 01:00:01 +0100"

print(gmdate("r",1));

Prints: "Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:01 +0100"

I think the '+0100' should've been 'GMT'.

(Done on a system with GMT+1)

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 [2001-10-31 07:00 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
I must be missing something here.  date('r') is intended to display an RFC822 date string.  Section 5.1 of RFC822 clearly states that +0100 is a perfectly valid way to represent the timezone.  So how is this function not working as expected?
 [2001-10-31 07:11 UTC] root at mediamonks dot net 
print(date("r", 1));
Prints: "Thu, 1 Jan 1970 01:00:01 +0100"

This is correct, the local timezone is GMT+1.

print(gmdate("r",1));
Prints: "Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:01 +0100"

This is wrong, it outputs the GMT date & time, but with the timezone "+0100" instead of "GMT". Thus equaling a date of "Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:00:01 GMT", which is obviously not 1 second after the start of the unix epoch.
 [2001-10-31 07:18 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Ah, ok.  Too early in the morning here.  Looks like a Windows-specific issue as your test displays this on my Linux box:
Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:01 -0800
Thu,  1 Jan 1970 00:00:01 +0000
 [2001-11-03 07:43 UTC] jmoore@php.net 
Fixed in CVS
 
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