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Bug #43527 DateTime created from a timestamp reports environment timezone
Submitted: 2007-12-07 09:55 UTC Modified: 2008-01-17 18:52 UTC
From: mattis at xait dot no Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Windows XP SP2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-12-07 09:55 UTC] mattis at xait dot no 
Description:
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When creating a DateTime from a timestamp (i.e. date('r)) it will report the TimeZone of the environment it was created in and not the timezone in the timestamp.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Etc/GMT+1");
$datetime = new DateTime('Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:05:14 +1000');
echo $datetime->getTimezone()->getName(), "\n";

Expected result:
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Etc/GMT-10

Actual result:
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Etc/GMT+1

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 [2007-12-07 09:59 UTC] derick@php.net 
There is a bug here, but the expected result is not necessarily what you say it should be. Because there is no real timezone , it probably should return false.
 [2008-01-17 18:52 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

The script now returns:
+10:00
(And you really should not be using the "Etc/*" style timezone identifiers.
 
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