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Bug #69577 PDT timezone is wrong
Submitted: 2015-05-05 21:58 UTC Modified: 2015-05-06 21:11 UTC
From: dbaley at xcastlabs dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: timezonedb (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.6.8 OS: centos 6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-05-05 21:58 UTC] dbaley at xcastlabs dot com 
Description:
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The PDT timezone is returning -0800 when it should be -0700. 

Test script:
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<?php
$d =  new DateTime('NOW', new DateTimeZone('PST'));
echo $d->format('Y-m-d h:m:s e O') . "\n";

$d =  new DateTime('NOW', new DateTimeZone('PDT'));
echo $d->format('Y-m-d h:m:s e O') . "\n";

$d =  new DateTime('NOW', new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'));
echo $d->format('Y-m-d h:m:s e O') . "\n";
?>

Expected result:
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Expected correct output:
2015-05-05 01:05:08 PST -0800
2015-05-05 01:05:08 PDT -0700
2015-05-05 02:05:08 America/Los_Angeles -0700

Actual result:
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Given incorrect output:
2015-05-05 01:05:08 PST -0800
2015-05-05 01:05:08 PDT -0800
2015-05-05 02:05:08 America/Los_Angeles -0700

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 [2015-05-06 20:48 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2015-05-06 20:48 UTC] cmb@php.net 
According to the manual[1], PST and PDT are unsupported. See
particularly the list of other timezones[2] and the warnings given
there. 

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php>
[2] <http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php>
 [2015-05-06 21:11 UTC] dbaley at xcastlabs dot com 
Ah, my confusion came from upgrading an early php 5.5 to 5.6. Thanks for taking the time to point out the issue.
 
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