Very Wierd March Date problem

[johnrg1]

Hi All,

I am have been looking into why a script of mine does not work, when I came across i very strange error. My server does not like the day 29th March 2004. Then when i dig a little deeper, it turns out it does not like the last Sunday of March in any year.

Although I am able to format the date etc... when I comes to use mktime using the date parameters of the last Sunday in March, it always comes back with the saturday's date.

It treats it as day 6. then the monday is day 1.

Has anyone come across this problem before?

John.

 

[sleipnir214]

It probably has something to do with the fact that in the E.U., Daylight Saving Time starts the last Sunday in March. I've come across problems with the date() function at the end of DST.

What version of PHP are you running?

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[johnrg1]

I've got the most recent release. 4.3.4.

Any idea how to stop it?

 

[sleipnir214]

Nope. You'll probably have to just work around it.

It may not be a problem with PHP at all, but with non-PHP-written supporting libraries. I don't know.

You might look around for some date-manipulation classes that don't use date().

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