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Doc Bug #67870 jdtounix() claims localtime, but that's not true
Submitted: 2014-08-20 09:14 UTC Modified: 2017-09-04 12:03 UTC
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From: asphp at dsgml dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Calendar related
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 [2014-08-20 09:14 UTC] asphp at dsgml dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.jdtounix
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It says: "The time returned is localtime (and not GMT)."

But this is not true.

Part of the problem is bug #13187 which claims:

"so jdtounix returns localtime while
mysql unix_timestamp returns GMT"

Which is not true! It's actually exactly the opposite! MySQL returns localtime, and PHP returns GMT.

You can even look at the source code:

(uday * 24 * 3600)

No adjustment whatsoever for timezone.

Test script:
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<?
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
echo jdtounix(2440588) , "\n" . jdtounix(2440589);


Expected result:
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If it was local time then I would not get:

0
86400

But I do. Those times are exactly midnight UTC.

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 [2014-08-20 09:16 UTC] asphp at dsgml dot com 
And just to really confuse everyone, unixtojd() IS localtime, but doesn't say so in the documentation!

Source code:

if (!(ta = php_localtime_r(&ts, &tmbuf))) {
 [2014-10-23 07:26 UTC] saeed at hubaishan dot com 
you can test this by:
<?php
echo (jdtounix(rand(2440588,2465342))%86400) //always 0
?>
 [2017-01-28 17:12 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Package: Documentation problem +Package: Calendar related
 [2017-09-04 11:41 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2017-09-04 11:41 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> MySQL returns localtime, and PHP returns GMT.

Well, actually PHP returns UTC, but indeed not local time. Thanks!
 [2017-09-04 12:03 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cmb
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=342998
Log: Fix bug #67870 (jdtounix() claims localtime, but that's not true)
 [2017-09-04 12:03 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 [2020-02-07 06:06 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of cmb
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=b92b86af557c40f9af69a8c4d1f2fbf1c5c39f92
Log: Fix bug #67870 (jdtounix() claims localtime, but that's not true)
 
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