mktime() bug? result strtotime() fail in PHP

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:35, Marcus Grando wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > To be pedantic, FreeBSD 4.11 is correct and the others are wrong.  If
>
>                                                    ^^^^^^
> Also FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE?
>
> > DST started at 2004-11-02 00:00 local time then you can't convert a local
> > time of 2004-11-02 00:00:00 because that time doesn't exist - your local
> > time goes 2004-11-01 23:59:59, 2004-11-02 01:00:00, 2004-11-02 01:00:01.
>
> I know, but timestamp return is better of that -1.

Not really..
You asked it to do an illegal operation. There are 2 choices - 1) return and 
error, 2) have the computer try and guess what you really meant.

2 leads to all sorts of bad things like other programs working around it to 
get proper functionality etc..

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