[Typo3-dev] OT: maketime

[Peter Niederlag]

Hi Simon,

Simon Child schrieb:

> The next to bottom note on that page:

myself: remember always to RTFM(read the Fine
Manual) to the evry bottom. ;)
Thx, that was exactly what I have been missing in documentation, it
should go somewhere more upwards. ;)

> ==============
> I think it is important to note that the timestamp returned is based upon
> the number of seconds from the epoch GMT, and then modified by the time zone
> settings on the server.
> 
> Thus...
> 
> mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970) will not always return 0.  For example with the US
> eastern time zone (GMT-5) will return 18000 (5 hours past the epoch) and the
> same function with the time zone set to the US pacific time zone (GMT-8)
> will return 28800 (8 hours past the epoch).
> 
> In an instance where you want time zone independence, you should use the
> function gmmktime()
> ==============

Yepp, I will definitly want to use gmmktime then. ;)

Many thx,
Peter

P.S.: I am working on the same problem as Sascha, where we need to
convert hour:minute from some external database to a TYPO3 conform
"timestamp" with $TCA eval=time. Now everything will work out very
nicely. :-> (cause we don't have to do mktime(import['hour']+1,
import['minutes'], 0, 1, 1, 1970...) anymore without knowing why this
stupid '+1' is needed. ;)
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