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Bug #34147 Timezone problem
Submitted: 2005-08-16 10:07 UTC Modified: 2006-01-02 08:55 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.4
Reproduced:5 of 5 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (60.0%)
Same OS:2 (40.0%)
From: joerg dot klein at ifsam dot lu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.1.0b3 OS: win2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-08-16 10:07 UTC] joerg dot klein at ifsam dot lu 
Description:
------------
hi
It seems that php don't have the correct timezone. This error occurs since 5.1.0b3.

I am on GMT+1
for the following example the system time is 11:00
date("H:i");
=> 09:00

set system time-zone to GMT(+0)
date("H:i");
=> 09:00

set system time to 10:00
date("H:i");
=> 08:00

My box runs on win2000SP4.

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 [2005-08-16 12:16 UTC] joerg dot klein at ifsam dot lu 
same results with the latest snapshot
 [2005-08-16 12:17 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Derick, please check it out.
 [2005-08-16 13:17 UTC] derick@php.net 
Duplicate of #33920
 [2005-08-16 13:47 UTC] joerg dot klein at ifsam dot lu 
This behaviour occurs the first time in 5.1.0b3.
The time was always displayed correct in any previous PHP version! So why should the behaviour change in the latest beta version?
 [2005-08-16 14:00 UTC] derick@php.net 
We've new date/time support that doesn't rely on the OS. If you can point us how to retrieve the current timezone abbreviation on Windows with threadsafe code, we're happy to add it.
 [2005-08-18 15:58 UTC] pash_ka at fonbet dot info 
Please, add "date.timezone" setting to php.ini-dist and php.ini-recomended in Windows distribution, since it's very important to all peoples performing updates to PHP 5.1 not to forget set this value properly.
 [2005-08-19 12:54 UTC] derick@php.net 
@pash_ka at fonbet dot info: What should we set it to by default?
 [2005-08-28 13:58 UTC] studio at peptolab dot com 
I'm getting the same behaviour in RH FC4 - I created an RPM of 
5.1.0RC1 and installed that - despite being in the Australia/
Melbourne timezone, I'm automatically assumed to be America/
New_York by PHP. It seems the 'magic' method isn't correctly 
picking up my OS settings.
 [2005-08-30 09:16 UTC] derick@php.net 
@studio at peptolab dot com: That's because the timezone abbreviations are ambigious. EST is both America/New_York and Australia/Melbourne. The magic method only sees the EST, so it needs to make an assumption. Set the config param in php.ini to "America/Melbourne" and all will be well.
 [2005-09-13 04:02 UTC] studio at peptolab dot com 
Derick - we're AUSTRALIA/Melbourne ;) BTW, we don't use EST, 
we're on AEST

I did manually set the propert in php.ini and it works fine - 
it's just good to flag this for first-time users so they don't 
get a shock when they're testing the upgrade.
 [2006-01-02 08:55 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
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