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Bug #53764 date with timestamp = 0
Submitted: 2011-01-17 07:39 UTC Modified: 2011-01-17 08:31 UTC
From: daedal13 at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.17 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-01-17 07:39 UTC] daedal13 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Hello. I have catched strange behavior of php.
If 2nd argument of function date(or strftime) is 0, this function add some hours to result.
For example, in Moscow they add 3 hours (difference between GMT).
Is it true ?

Test script:
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echo date('c', time()) . "\n";
echo date('c', time() - time()) . "\n";

Expected result:
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2011-01-17T09:34:00+03:00
1970-01-01T00:00:00+03:00

Actual result:
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2011-01-17T09:34:00+03:00
1970-01-01T03:00:00+03:00

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 [2011-01-17 08:31 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-01-17 08:31 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
UNIX timestamp 0 is defined as 0:00:00 on January 1, 1970 in the UTC time zone. 
Since your time zone is three hours ahead of UTC, the same time occurred at 3 am 
in your local time zone.
 
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