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Doc Bug #37187 gmmktime() documentation error
Submitted: 2006-04-24 18:35 UTC Modified: 2006-04-26 11:21 UTC
From: reywob@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
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 [2006-04-24 18:35 UTC] reywob@php.net
Description:
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The manual entry above is wrong.  The statement:
"Identical to mktime() except the passed parameters represents a GMT date."
should read
"Identical to mktime() except the timestamp produced represents a GMT date."

Here is a test case:
<?
// Assume month/day/year are set to today
$x = gmmktime(gmdate('H'),gmdate('i'),gmdate('s'),$month,$day,$year);
print ($x >= gmmktime()) ? "Yes" : "No";
?>
This produces "Yes" as the answer.  Changing it to:
<?
// Assume month/day/year are set to today
$x = gmmktime(date('H'),date('i'),date('s'),$month,$day,$year);
print ($x >= gmmktime()) ? "Yes" : "No";
?>
Produces the expected answer of "No"

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?
// Assume month/day/year are set to today
$x = gmmktime(gmdate('H'),gmdate('i'),gmdate('s'),$month,$day,$year);
print ($x >= gmmktime()) ? "Yes" : "No";
?>

Expected result:
----------------
No

Actual result:
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Yes

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 [2006-04-26 11:21 UTC] vrana@php.net
Timestamp is always the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT independent on function. You didn't specify your timezone, but in +01:00 mktime(1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1970) correctly returns 0 and mktime(1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1970) returns 3600.
 
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