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Bug #81562 DateTime returns incorrect time on a very specific date (1895-01-01)
Submitted: 2021-10-28 18:32 UTC Modified: 2022-05-13 15:43 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.5
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: abrlam at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2021-10-28 18:32 UTC] abrlam at yahoo dot com
Description:
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When time zone is set as America/Toronto, DateTime returns incorrect time on a very specific date (1895-01-01).

This happens in PHP version 7.4.20 and possibly in earlier versions (>=7.3.5).

Test script:
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//fails in 1895-01-01
for($i = 1890; $i <= 1910 ; $i++) {
	$date = new DateTime( $i. '-01-01', new DateTimeZone('America/Toronto'));
	echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "<br />";
}

Expected result:
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For 1895-01-01, it should be 1895-01-01 00:00:00 instead of 1895-01-01 00:17:32.

Actual result:
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1890-01-01 00:00:00
1891-01-01 00:00:00
1892-01-01 00:00:00
1893-01-01 00:00:00
1894-01-01 00:00:00
1895-01-01 00:17:32 <========== Expected value: 1895-01-01 00:00:00
1896-01-01 00:00:00
1897-01-01 00:00:00
1898-01-01 00:00:00
1899-01-01 00:00:00
1900-01-01 00:00:00
1901-01-01 00:00:00
1902-01-01 00:00:00
1903-01-01 00:00:00
1904-01-01 00:00:00
1905-01-01 00:00:00
1906-01-01 00:00:00
1907-01-01 00:00:00
1908-01-01 00:00:00
1909-01-01 00:00:00
1910-01-01 00:00:00

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 [2021-10-29 11:29 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2021-10-29 11:29 UTC] cmb@php.net
Confirmed: <https://3v4l.org/NLAnOY>.

This is apparently caused by the uncommon timezone transition on
that particular date[1], where the minutes and seconds are not
properly handled.

[1] <https://3v4l.org/VEUib>
 [2022-05-13 15:43 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Not a bug
 [2022-05-13 15:43 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

This turned out to be correct. Look at the transitions:

derick@gargleblaster:~$ zdump -v America/Toronto -c 0,1900

America/Toronto  Tue Jan  1 05:17:31 1895 UT = Mon Dec 31 23:59:59 1894 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-19052
America/Toronto  Tue Jan  1 05:17:32 1895 UT = Tue Jan  1 00:17:32 1895 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

The date/time "1895-01-01 00:00:00 America/Toronto" does not exist, as at that exact point the area changed timezones to advance by 17m32s (1052s difference in UTC offset). 

PHP and timelib handle this correctly.
 
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