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Bug #19620 wrong date
Submitted: 2002-09-26 13:51 UTC Modified: 2002-09-26 17:34 UTC
From: rsmeurer at terra dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.2.1 OS: FREE BSD 4.6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-09-26 13:51 UTC] rsmeurer at terra dot com dot br 
// why is this returning 1969-12-31 ???

$day = 13;
$month = 10;
$year = 2002;
echo date("Y-m-d",mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year)); 

And MySQL also does the same when I insert '2002-10-13' in a date field!!!

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 [2002-09-26 13:55 UTC] tal@php.net 
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 [2002-09-26 17:34 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
we really need a quickfix entry for this ... :(

due to daylight saving time there is no
such date as 2002-10-13 00:00:00 in brazil

the second following 2002-10-12 23:59:59
is 2002-10-13 01:00:00

so you requested the timestamp for an invalid
date, which is -1

and then you passed that on without checking 
to the date function, which took it as 
"the second before the unix epoch", being
1969-12-31 23:59:59
 
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