This is happening for a different reason. Here are some results from //echo -s $asctime($ctime) - $ctime with various timezone settings:
Sun Jul 20 13:51:34 2003 - 1058698294
Sun Jul 20 06:51:54 2003 - 1058698314
Sun Jul 20 16:52:15 2003 - 1058698335
even though $asctime() returns very different dates, $ctime is the same (with a difference of few secs). I guess the difference in $ctime you noticed is because of Daylight Saving Time. If the option "Automatically adjust clock for DST changes" is disabled, I get different values for certain timezones. I didn't check it thoroughly enough, but it seems that countries with timezone offsets that are not integer multiples of an hour make the system return a different $ctime when the option is disabled. In any case, this difference is most of the times 2.5 hours, which is irrevelevant to the actual timezone offset of that country (it can coincide, but has nothing to do with it).
