The call for papers of the eZ publish Conference 2006 (taking place in Skien - Norway this June 21-23) is not closed, yet.

Since Norway in summer is absolutly beautiful, I can only recommend to propose a talk! :) Beside that, I hope for many interessting and innovative stuff to be presented there. This years topic is Enterprise Open Source So take your heels and send your proposals to us!

Bug report #35958 must have the most obscure one ever:

"strftime usually returns a string from the number of seconds since 1 jan 1970. Now, it lags and returns a string representing 23 seconds too late."

If you know what's going on though, it isn't really that weird. Every once in a while the IERS announces a new leap second to "keep the broadcast standards for time of day close to mean solar time". At the moment the difference is 23 seconds which is reflected in comparing the leap second adjusted time zone information file with the non-adjusted one. You can see the leap second with this little shell script:

#!/bin/bash
export TZ=Europe/Amsterdam
date --date "@1136073621"
date --date "@1136073622"
date --date "@1136073623"
export TZ=right/Europe/Amsterdam
date --date "@1136073621"
date --date "@1136073622"
date --date "@1136073623"

The output is:

Sun Jan  1 01:00:21 CET 2006
Sun Jan  1 01:00:22 CET 2006
Sun Jan  1 01:00:23 CET 2006
Sun Jan  1 00:59:59 CET 2006
Sun Jan  1 00:59:60 CET 2006
Sun Jan  1 01:00:00 CET 2006

The output with the "right/Europe/Amsterdam" timezone is actually the correct time, but this will obviously confused too many computer programs. Most often you will not see this one in use.

The new date/time code in PHP 5.1 does not support the leap second either. I was playing with it while developing, but thought it to be to confusing. Seems I was right there :)

The 4.annual eZ publish Conference will be arranged from June 20 to June 23, 2006 in Skien, Norway.

The theme of the eZ Conference 2006 is: Enterprise Open Source.

Topics for talks should include: eZ publish, Enterprise CMS, and Enterprise PHP. The deadline is fast approaching - January 16th - so get those submissions in today! You can check out this page for the complete details...

A very new group of PHP users has been formed in Angers. They seek to not only discuss PHP related topics, but also other new technologies around the web. A mailing list will be quickly set up to communicate between the members meeting places and various other events.

You can check out thier site for complete information...

Don't forget to submit your proposals! We already have a great lineup of speakers and attendees for the event, including core team members from PHP, MySQL, the Mozilla Foundation and much more. Don't miss the chance to meet them!

The Call for Papers of eZ publish Conference 2006 will end in a week, Monday, Jan 16.

Hence, you can still submit your proposals in time.