I hope I haven't overlooked something (again), but this just popped up, and is hurting my current application, big-time.

PHP is reporting certain timestamps as the wrong date (specifically, I've found the first week of April 2001 the be erraneous). I noticed that MySQL was converting a specific set of timestamps to dates differently than my php app. So, I tested against perl as well, and PHP is definitely doing SOMETHING weird.. 

Here are the results:

[mysql]
SELECT 986184000 AS unix_time,
       FROM_UNIXTIME(986184000) AS date_stamp,
       UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-04-01 23:00:00') AS unix_time
--> unix_time=98618400, date_stamp='2001-04-01 23:00:00', unix_time=98618400

[php]
sean@linux1:~$ echo '<?php $date_stamp=986184000; echo $date_stamp ." = ". date("M d, Y, H:i:s A",$date_stamp) ."\n" ?>' | php -q
986184000 = Apr 01, 2001, 23:00:00 PM

[perl]
sean@linux1:~$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print ctime(986184000)'
Sun Apr  1 23:00:00 2001

Again, I'm really sorry to waste your collective time if this is my mistake.

S