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Request #26090 allow colons in time zone offset to strtotime()
Submitted: 2003-11-03 00:29 UTC Modified: 2005-06-28 23:23 UTC
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.0.0b1 (beta1) OS: n/a
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-11-03 00:29 UTC] danielc at analysisandsolutions dot com 
Description:
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The strtotime() function doesn't allow time zone offsets to contain colons ":" in them.  Colons are included in several offset formmating standards.

Reproduce code:
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$t = '2003-10-28 10:20:30-0800';
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s T', strtotime($t)) . "\n<br />\n";

$t = '2003-10-28 10:20:30-08:00';
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s T', strtotime($t)) . "\n";


Expected result:
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2003-10-28 13:20:30 EST
<br />
2003-10-28 13:20:30 EST


Actual result:
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2003-10-28 13:20:30 EST
<br />
1969-12-31 18:59:59 EST

On Windows 2000, the attempt with the colons in the offset produces a negative timestamp, so the beloved "Windows does not support dates prior to midnight" warning arises.

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 [2005-06-28 23:23 UTC] nlopess@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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Fixed in PHP 5.1.
 
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