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Bug #61028 DateTime constructor ignores Timezone info in DATE_ISO8601 formated strings
Submitted: 2012-02-09 15:04 UTC Modified: 2012-02-09 15:18 UTC
From: tom dot anheyer at berlinonline dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.3.10 OS: OpenSuse 12.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-02-09 15:04 UTC] tom dot anheyer at berlinonline dot de 
Description:
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DateTime ignores Timezone:

php -r '$d=new DateTime("2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100"); echo $d->format(DATE_ISO8601)."\n"; $d=new DateTime("2012-02-09T14:30:14+0000"); echo $d->format(DATE_ISO8601)."\n";'

Output:
2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100
2012-02-09T14:30:14+0000


strtotime works as expected:

php -r 'echo date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime("2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100"))."\n"; echo date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime("2012-02-09T14:30:14+0000"))."\n";'

Output:
2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100
2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100


Test script:
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php -r '$d=new DateTime("2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100"); echo $d->format(DATE_ISO8601)."\n"; $d=new DateTime("2012-02-09T14:30:14+0000"); echo $d->format(DATE_ISO8601)."\n";'


Expected result:
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2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100
2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100


Actual result:
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2012-02-09T15:30:14+0100
2012-02-09T14:30:14+0000

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 [2012-02-09 15:18 UTC] derick@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

DateTime objects actually keep their timezone information, whereas strtotime() removes it (as a timestamp doesn't contain tz info).
 [2012-02-09 15:18 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 
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