Variations of date("<br>") returns wrong output or lets PHP
dump core. This bug has been reported by Christian Hamacher
in de.comp.lang.php, followups reported similar problems on
Win 98 and Win 2000.

Here on Linux 2.4.2 I see:

% echo '<?
$Date=date("d.m.Y <br> H:i:s");
echo "$Date\n";
?>' | php -q
03.03.2001 <bSat,  3 Mar 2001 12:16:42 +0100>
808132658:876230193:976367904

No core dump here if I run in the Bash, but wrong output.
In zsh, I get a core dump (and the wrong output):

% echo '<?
$Date=date("d.m.Y <br> H:i:s");
echo "$Date\n";
?>' | php -q
03.03.2001 <bSat,  3 Mar 2001 12:20:05 +0100>
808132661:809119794:976367904
zsh: done                              echo <?
$Date=date("d.m.Y <br> H:i:s");
echo "$Date\n";
?> |
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  php -q

% gdb =php core
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Core was generated by `php -q'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.4.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libhistory.so.4.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libttf.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libxml.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_db.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdb.so.3...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x403b8220, p=0x8267070) at malloc.c:3049
malloc.c:3049: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x403b8220, p=0x8267070) at malloc.c:3049
#1  0x4032e14a in __libc_free (mem=0x8267078) at malloc.c:3023
#2  0x80ed001 in _efree (ptr=0x8267084) at zend_alloc.c:238
#3  0x80e1ec9 in zend_hash_destroy (ht=0x826192c) at
zend_hash.c:569
#4  0x80f1950 in shutdown_executor () at zend_execute_API.c:165
#5  0x80e48e4 in zend_deactivate () at zend.c:525
#6  0x8072ca2 in php_request_shutdown (dummy=0x0) at main.c:688
#7  0x806faff in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff2ac) at
cgi_main.c:771
#8  0x402f58c1 in __libc_start_main (main=0x806f30c <main>,
argc=2,
    argv=0xbffff2ac, init=0x806d3f8 <_init>, fini=0x819b2a4
<_fini>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000a914 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff2a4)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
(gdb)


If I ask for a "<b>" instead for "<br>", everything is ok.
Of course there are easy work-arounds (just use `echo
"<br>"' instead), but nevertheless.

Regards...
			Michael