possible bug in datetime formatting

Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:27:39 pm

I encountered a problem (possibly bug) with date formating...

I have a timestamp of $t=1153267200 which is equal to:

Wednesday, July 19th 2006, 0:00:00 (GMT)
or
Wednesday, July 19th 2006, 1:00:00 (GMT +1)

This can be checked at http://www.4webhelp.net/us/timestamp.php .
But when I try to output this:

{$t|l10n( 'shortdatetime' )}

I get:

19.07.2006. 02:00

I'm sure that my server is in (GMT +1) zone because the output of:

{datetime('custom', '%O')}

is:

+0100

and so the time in the last date should be 01:00 and not 02:00.

It seems like there's one hour too much. Why is this happening? Is it a bug?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Monday 24 July 2006 6:12:27 am

I solved this one. The problem was in the "dayligh saving" change of time also known as CEST.
Regarding to this, here's a suggestion to everyone. I was trying to get the today's date (with 00:00h) from the currentdate() function like this:

{def $today_date=currentdate() $one_hour=3600 $one_day=mul(24,$one_hour)}
{set today_date=mul(floor(div($today_date,$one_day)),$one_day)}

This is not correct. You should add this line after the above code:

{set today_date=sub($today_date,mul(datetime('custom', '%O'),$one_hour))}

So that the time is adapted to the apropriate time zone.

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Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it!

Hubert Farnsworth