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Bug #69916 DateTime and bad behaviour with DateTimeZone
Submitted: 2015-06-23 22:57 UTC Modified: 2021-04-05 16:19 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (75.0%)
Same OS:1 (25.0%)
From: marcus at onlab dot org Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.6.10 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-06-23 22:57 UTC] marcus at onlab dot org 
Description:
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Reproduced on PHP 5.6.10 (cli) (built: Jun 12 2015 10:07:24) osx Yosemit 10.10.3 Darwin Kernel Version 14.3.0, and PHP 5.5.23 (cli) (built: Mar 23 2015 01:47:37) 

php.ini
date.timezone => UTC => UTC


Reproduced on Amazon machines: PHP 5.6.10-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli)


Test script:
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More cases: https://gist.github.com/onlab/71a863feed01f79e7b7a

$baseDate = \DateTime::createFromFormat(\DateTime::ISO8601, '2015-06-23T18:00:00-0300');

echo '----- Everything works fine here -----' . PHP_EOL;
echo "SET America/Sao_Paulo \t" . $baseDate->format(\DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
$baseDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('America/Sao_Paulo'));

echo "SET GMT-3 \t\t" . $baseDate->format(\DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
$baseDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('GMT-3'));

echo "SET America/Sao_Paulo \t" . $baseDate->format(\DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
$baseDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('America/Sao_Paulo'));

echo '----- Time will be changed -3 hours (bug) -----' . PHP_EOL;
echo "SET America/Sao_Paulo \t" . $baseDate->format(\DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
$baseDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('America/Sao_Paulo'));

echo '----- Everything works fine here -----' . PHP_EOL;
echo "SET GMT-3 \t\t" . $baseDate->format(\DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
$baseDate->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('GMT-3'));

Expected result:
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Regardless of the timezone I'm using, both represents GMT-3. So the result should be the below result in any result:

2015-06-23T18:00:00-0300

Actual result:
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----- Everything works fine here -----
SET America/Sao_Paulo 	2015-06-23T18:00:00-0300
SET GMT-3 		2015-06-23T18:00:00-0300
SET America/Sao_Paulo 	2015-06-23T18:00:00-0300
----- Time will be changed -3 hours (bug) -----
SET America/Sao_Paulo 	2015-06-23T15:00:00-0300
----- Everything works fine here -----
SET GMT-3 		2015-06-23T15:00:00-0300

Patches

timezone-quickfix (last revision 2015-06-24 14:32 UTC by cmb@php.net)

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 [2015-06-23 23:10 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2015-06-23 23:10 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Your output is backwards: you show the time before you change the timezone.

Not backwards: http://3v4l.org/8Gm26
Switching from GMT-3 to America/Sao_Paulo moves the hour -3 every time but the first.
 [2015-06-24 00:18 UTC] cmb@php.net 
However, the documentation on other timezone identifiers[1] (such
as GMT-3) states:

| Please do not use any of the timezones listed here (besides
| UTC), they only exist for backward compatible reasons.

| If you disregard the above warning, please also note that the
| IANA timezone database that provides PHP's timezone support uses
| POSIX style signs, which results in the Etc/GMT+n and Etc/GMT-n
| time zones being reversed from common usage.

[1] <http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php>
 [2015-06-24 05:32 UTC] marcus at onlab dot org 
This means that I can't rely on DateTime formats to persist and work with it so PHP should deprecate this formats and suggest a new one that works, don't you think?

I tested each format and all of them have the same issue
(I can't post all links here due SPAM policy https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c4e4a482220ebe5f2055 )

ATOM http://3v4l.org/1idd6
 [2015-06-24 14:32 UTC] cmb@php.net 
The following patch has been added/updated:

Patch Name: timezone-quickfix
Revision:   1435156337
URL:        https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=69916&patch=timezone-quickfix&revision=1435156337
 [2015-06-24 14:33 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Operating System: osx +Operating System: *
 [2015-06-24 14:33 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I just wanted to point out that showing misbehavior by using
deprecated and potentially unsupported timezone identifiers is not
necessarily an indication of a bug.

However, the test script on <http://3v4l.org/1idd6> clearly shows
a bug. I've simplified this a bit (<http://3v4l.org/ldOMb>), and,
interestingly, when commenting out line 9, the result is as
expected.

The attached patch (timezone-quickfix) is supposed to fix the
issue, but it rather feels like a workaround instead of a
solution.
 [2015-07-16 11:00 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Related To: Bug #70086
 [2015-12-08 21:33 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Related To: Bug #71061
 [2016-03-18 18:04 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Related To: Bug #71855
 [2021-04-05 16:19 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Not a bug
 [2021-04-05 16:19 UTC] derick@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to report a problem with PHP.
Unfortunately you are not using a current version of PHP --
the problem might already be fixed. Please download a new
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If you are able to reproduce the bug with one of the latest
versions of PHP, please change the PHP version on this bug report
to the version you tested and change the status back to "Open".
Again, thank you for your continued support of PHP.

The 3v4l link shows that this already fixed, in: 7.0.17 and 7.1.3 (and 7.2.0 and later)
 
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