diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3c3b960bccc..608379b5f05 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   to different characters with cp1251 and cp866. (Scott)
 - Fixed possible crash in ext/soap because of uninitialized value. (Zdash Urf)
 - Fixed PECL bug #12431 (OCI8 ping functionality is broken). (Oracle Corp.)
+- Fixed an issue in date() where a : was printed for the O modifier after a P
+  modifier was used. (Derick)
 
 - Fixed bug #44805 (rename() function is not portable to Windows). (Pierre)
 - Fixed bug #44742 (timezone_offset_get() causes segmentation faults). (Derick)
diff --git a/ext/date/php_date.c b/ext/date/php_date.c
index 5652e7adec6..639b391de72 100644
--- a/ext/date/php_date.c
+++ b/ext/date/php_date.c
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static char *date_format(char *format, int format_len, timelib_time *t, int loca
 	char                 buffer[33];
 	timelib_time_offset *offset = NULL;
 	timelib_sll          isoweek, isoyear;
-	int                  rfc_colon = 0;
+	int                  rfc_colon;
 
 	if (!format_len) {
 		return estrdup("");
@@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ static char *date_format(char *format, int format_len, timelib_time *t, int loca
 	timelib_isoweek_from_date(t->y, t->m, t->d, &isoweek, &isoyear);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < format_len; i++) {
+		rfc_colon = 0;
 		switch (format[i]) {
 			/* day */
 			case 'd': length = slprintf(buffer, 32, "%02d", (int) t->d); break;