The current "stable" php build on ppc is 5.2.10, which has a known bug with the date function resulting in the year being returned as 0000, which at a minimum breaks a number of programs cookies. The 5.2.11 release of php corrects this bug, however it is currently marked unstable on ppc (but is "stable" on amd64), this seems backwards. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dev-lang/php-5.2.10 on ppc 2. execute echo date('Y') in php Actual Results: Year will be returned as 0000 Expected Results: Year should be 2009 at time of writing
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 278064 ***