From:             jtucker at bsiweb dot com
Operating system: Red Hat 9
PHP version:      4.3.3
PHP Bug Type:     Date/time related
Bug description:  Date functions before 1970, after 2038

Description:
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Hi,

We have a very troubling bug after upgrading Red Hat to 9.0 and PHP to
4.33. The problem is many of the date functions do not work with dates
before 1970 or after 2038. This is a result of the posix standard set by
glibc v2.3.

The major problem with this is this makes much of existing PHP code
broken. Red Hat 9 is dependent on this version of glibc, as well as many
libraries associated with PHP. A solution has been provided with an adodb
date library, but this breaks a large amount of existing scripts including
the Pear libraries and many pre-existing applications.

Many users choices are grim, either lock themselves into earlier versions
of glibc, PHP, Linux, or be fored to update all their code to use the
adodb function calls, along with every application upgrade and every
update to Pear.

I strongly feel that support for date functions with glibc 2.3 should be
included in the next version of PHP. We can't all wait for PHP 5 to
support this functionality. Thank you.

Reproduce code:
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getdate()
date() 
gmdate()
mktime()
gmmktime()
strtotime()

with any date before 1970 or after 2038 on a system compiled with glibc
2.3.


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