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Doc Bug #74324 DateTimeZone supported timezone names
Submitted: 2017-03-28 08:12 UTC Modified: 2017-03-28 10:28 UTC
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From: graeme dot chapman at infinitycloud dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.6.30 OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-03-28 08:12 UTC] graeme dot chapman at infinitycloud dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/datetimezone.construct
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The documentation states that the DateTimeZone constructor accepts 'One of the supported timezone names(http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php).' 

However, it also appears to accept offset values. Unsure if this is expected but undocumented behaviour, or a bug. In PHP 5.5.9 this throws an exception. 

Test script:
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var_dump(new DateTimeZone('+0200'));

Expected result:
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Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (+0200)'

Actual result:
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object(DateTimeZone)#1 (2) {
  ["timezone_type"]=>
  int(1)
  ["timezone"]=>
  string(6) "+02:00"
}

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 [2017-03-28 08:39 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2017-03-28 08:39 UTC] requinix@php.net
timelib (which PHP uses) explicitly supports offset notation in addition to the usual named timezones; see the "tzcorrection" format in
  http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.time.php

Ref:
  https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.6.30/ext/date/lib/parse_date.re#L746
  https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.6.30/ext/date/lib/timelib.c#L311
 [2017-03-28 08:58 UTC] graeme dot chapman at infinitycloud dot com
@requinix Makes sense. Think this needs a little update to the docs to clarify this though!
 [2017-03-28 10:28 UTC] derick@php.net
Supporting "+02:00" and the like, is new functionality since PHP 5.5. PHP 5.4 and earlier did not support this. We simply forgot to add this to the documentation.
 [2022-06-02 14:59 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of derickr
Revision: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/071c7cace14d7f435981bf7f78a959d07be33571
Log: Fixed bug #74324: DateTimeZone supported timezone names
 [2022-06-02 14:59 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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