Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65201&edit=1
ID: 65201
User updated by: easysurf at easysurf dot cc
Reported by: easysurf at easysurf dot cc
Summary: Africa/Cairo time off by 1 hour
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Window 8
PHP Version: 5.5.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
<?php
putenv('TZ=Africa/Cairo');
echo date('l g:i A');
?>
The problem is that your site that sends out the time zone for Africa/Cairo is
off by an hour.
When I tried the above code it is still one hour off.
Goto:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/cairo/
You will see that there is a discrepancy between your time and theirs.
Also when I watch CNN with a live feed from Cairo with a timestamp, it does not
match you time but does match the time that Greenwich sends out.
Previous Comments:
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[2013-07-06 09:17:19] a...@php.net
I'm not sure what you're trying to do in that script, but i suppose it's a bug
in
it. You convert from local to GMT and then again. I cannot repro neither with
your
script nor with a much smaller sample
putenv('TZ=Africa/Cairo');
echo date('l g:i A');
Do that two lines work for you?
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[2013-07-06 02:08:21] easysurf at easysurf dot cc
<?php
function recity($anycity) {
$lcity1 = strlen($anycity);
$pos1 = strpos($anycity, "/");
$pos1 = $pos1 + 1;
$sstrt1 = $lcity1 - $pos1;
$tncity = substr($anycity, $pos1, $sstrt1);
$tncity2 = "";
for ($i = 0, $j = strlen($tncity); $i <= $j; $i++) {
if (substr($tncity, $i, 1) == "_") {
$tncity2 = $tncity2 . " ";
}
else {
$tncity2 = $tncity2 . substr($tncity, $i, 1);
}
}
return $tncity2;
}
$time1 = date("g:i A", mktime());
$city1 = "GMT";
$city2 = "Africa/Cairo";
$ncity1 = recity($city1);
$ncity2 = recity($city2);
$start_time_input = $time1;
$start_tz = $city1;
$end_tz = $city2;
putenv("TZ=$start_tz");
$start_time = strtotime($start_time_input);
echo "<p><strong>";
echo "<BR /><br />";
echo "<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=6>";
putenv("TZ=$end_tz");
echo date("l g:i A",$start_time)."\n";
echo "</strong>";
echo " in $ncity2.</p>";
echo "</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>";
echo "<BR /><br />";
echo "<P>return to <A HREF=http://www.easysurf.cc/tmnw4.htm>What Time is it
now?</A><P>";
?>
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[2013-07-05 07:14:03] a...@php.net
Please post a small PHP code snippet and date related INI directives.
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[2013-07-05 00:23:37] easysurf at easysurf dot cc
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>What Time is it Now - Select a Location</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFAF0" TEXT=#000000 LINK="Blue" VLINK="#0000A0" ALINK="Blue" >
<form action="http://easysurf.onlinewebshop.net/php2/tmzn.php"; method="post">
<CENTER>
<TABLE>
<TR><TH>Select a Location</TH></TR>
<TR><TD>
<select class=debu3 name="city2">
<option value="Africa/Cairo">Cairo</option>
</select>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
<BR>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Click to Calculate" />
</CENTER>
</form>
</BODY></HTML>
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[2013-07-04 06:39:58] a...@php.net
Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce
this bug ourselves.
A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>,
is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external
resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a
database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates
all necessary tables, stored procedures etc.
Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.
Please post also all the datetime related ini options you have.
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