mktime(gmdate) loses a day wtf?

[treelovinhippie]

When I run this code:

echo '<br />Current UTC '.gmdate("H, i, s, m, d, Y"); 
$gmtmst = mktime(gmdate("H, i, s, m, d, Y")); // get current UTC time 
echo '<br /<pre>'; 
print_r(getdate($gmtmst)); 
echo '</pre>'; 

I get this:

Current UTC 06, 00, 47, 02, 28, 2008

Array
(
    [seconds] => 47
    [minutes] => 0
    [hours] => 6
    [mday] => 27
    [wday] => 3
    [mon] => 2
    [year] => 2008
    [yday] => 57
    [weekday] => Wednesday
    [month] => February
    [0] => 1204120847
)

WTF?

[treelovinhippie]

OK, a lot more searching and apparently to do this very, very simple function you need to use this code:

$gmtmst = strtotime(gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", time()))