problem with date returning wrong day although the timestamp is correct!

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Published on 2010-04-10T12:20:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 12:23 UTC
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I have a bizzare problem with php date function.

code:

$numDays = 8;
$date = strtotime('2010-11-06');
for ($i=1; $i<=$numDays; $i++)
{
    $thisDay = date("D, d M Y", $date);
    print ($thisDay.'<br>');
    $date+=86400; // add one day to timestamp
}

result on my server (local host, windows):

Sat, 06 Nov 2010

Sun, 07 Nov 2010

Mon, 08 Nov 2010

Tue, 09 Nov 2010

Wed, 10 Nov 2010

Thu, 11 Nov 2010

Fri, 12 Nov 2010

Sat, 13 Nov 2010

Result on my web server (linux)

Sat, 06 Nov 2010

*Sun, 07 Nov 2010

Sun, 07 Nov 2010*

Mon, 08 Nov 2010

Tue, 09 Nov 2010

Wed, 10 Nov 2010

Thu, 11 Nov 2010

Fri, 12 Nov 2010

Notice how Sun, 07 Nov 2010 appears twice on the remote server?? Why is this happening? can anyone explain this Behavior?

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