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Bug #46501 date() doesn't account for daylights savings & am/pm returns incorrectly
Submitted: 2008-11-06 09:24 UTC Modified: 2008-11-06 11:16 UTC
From: micah_blu at bluprintsmedia dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-11-06 09:24 UTC] micah_blu at bluprintsmedia dot net 
Description:
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date() doesn't account for daylights savings & am/pm returns incorrectly. The date("I") returns 0 even though it should return 1. Here is system info produced by phpinfo():

:Linux p3slh166.shr.phx3.secureserver.net 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686

The server is not dedicated.
Would appreciate any help you could give!

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date("Y-m-d h:i a); //returns am times as pm and is 1 hour ahead.

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 [2008-11-06 11:16 UTC] jani@php.net 
We are happy to tell you that you just discovered Daylight Savings
Time. For more information see:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
Instead of using mktime/date consider using gmmktime and gmdate which do
not suffer from DST.
 
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