Date() Problems - BST Problem is ON

Testing BST Problems - Problem is ON

If you look below, right (“Top Ten Pages Today”) you will see a print-out of the current time on the server. This string includes ‘+0000’ indicating that British Summer Time is OFF on the server (for this page script).

Look now at bstoff.php and the same string (may have) become ‘+0100’, indicating that just one line of Date() code has switched BST off for this page (this obviously only happens during the Summer months).

Program code causing the problem:

This is the only code on this page (all other code is within common include-files):

     require_once('Date.php');
     $_DATE_TIMEZONE_DEFAULT='GB'; // will become 'UTC' or 'BST' if not preset (fixed)
     $today=new Date();
     $todayDST=($today->inDaylightTime()) // <=== this is the line that causes the problem
        ? "\$today has dst switched ON"
        : "\$today has dst switched OFF";

For the record, $todayDST := “$today has dst switched OFF”, which is deeply ironic, in view of what date('r') is reporting on the right.

Date.php: $Id: Date.php,v 1.35 2005/11/15 00:16:38 pajoye Exp $
TimeZone.php: $Id: TimeZone.php,v 1.11 2005/11/15 00:16:40 pajoye Exp $

A longer explanation of this is at the 12 April, 2004 Diary page. The bug has been reported by email to the module writer and also on the PEAR bug-report page.

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