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Bug #36599 DATE_W3C format constant incorrect
Submitted: 2006-03-03 06:15 UTC Modified: 2006-03-03 08:54 UTC
From: d dot begley at uws dot edu dot au Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: Solaris 9 (SPARC)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-03 06:15 UTC] d dot begley at uws dot edu dot au 
Description:
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The new date() format constants introduced in PHP 5.1.1:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

include a format called DATE_W3C, for which the example shown is:

2005-08-15T15:52:01+0000

Whilst this matches the output of live code in PHP, the actual format of the timezone offset is missing a colon (as per the oft-quoted W3C tech note).  I know adding a colon seems "wrong", but that's what the W3C doc includes:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

I came across this as the "standard" W3C format (I know the doc itself isn't a standard) because other specs (such as Dublin Core Metadata) refer to the above URL for format information - therefore, the colon must be "significant", no matter how "wrong" it seems.


Reproduce code:
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date( DATE_W3C, getlastmod() )

Expected result:
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2006-03-03T15:41:46+11:00

Actual result:
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2006-03-03T15:41:46+1100

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