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Bug #28209 strtotime("now")
Submitted: 2004-04-28 21:06 UTC Modified: 2004-11-15 17:36 UTC
Votes:29
Avg. Score:4.7 ± 0.5
Reproduced:28 of 28 (100.0%)
Same Version:15 (53.6%)
Same OS:5 (17.9%)
From: gamin at centras dot lt Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.0.0RC2 OS: WinXP HE SP1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-04-28 21:06 UTC] gamin at centras dot lt
Description:
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Simple script... doesn't matter how much time i run it - strototime("now") produces same result for whole day. On next month day it produces same result. Seems i didn't have any problem on RC1.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$str = "now";
$timestamp = strtotime($str);
echo "$str == " . date('l dS of F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp) . "<br />\n";
$timestamp = time();
echo "Good is " . date('l dS of F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp) . "<br />\n";


Expected result:
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now == Wednesday 28th of April 2004 10:02:54 PM
Good is Wednesday 28th of April 2004 10:02:54 PM

Actual result:
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now == Wednesday 28th of April 2004 12:00:00 AM
Good is Wednesday 28th of April 2004 10:02:54 PM

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 [2004-05-18 12:28 UTC] wb at pro-net dot co dot uk
Im seeing the same thing on FreeBSD 5 with PHP5 rc2.

code: 

<?php
$strtime = strtotime('now');
printf('
     Now:  %11s  %s
Str time:  %11s  %s

'
, time()
, date('d M Y @ H:i:s ')
, $strtime
, date('d M Y @ H:i:s ', $strtime)
);
?>

Expected:


     Now:   1084875653  18 May 2004 @ 11:20:53
Str time:   1084875653  18 May 2004 @ 11:20:53


Actual:


     Now:   1084875653  18 May 2004 @ 11:20:53
Str time:   1084834800  18 May 2004 @ 00:00:00
 [2004-05-18 21:53 UTC] derick@php.net
This is actually expected behavior because we follow the GNU guidelines here, but I agree it's a weird thing to do. If nobody objects I'll make "now" be really now during the rewrite of the strtotime() rewrite.
 [2004-05-19 12:04 UTC] wb at pro-net dot co dot uk
Hi derick,

    Yes that is strange, What about adding an optional parameter to the function to set toggle between real now and gnu now?

    Something like:

        int strtotime ( string time [, int now] [, bool gnu = false])
 [2004-05-19 12:10 UTC] wb at pro-net dot co dot uk
Just thought that i would point out that in PHP 4 now is real now and not GNU now so form a BC point of view i think now should be real now.
 [2004-05-19 12:10 UTC] wb at pro-net dot co dot uk
Just thought that i would point out that in PHP 4 now is real now and not GNU now so form a BC point of view i think now should be real now.
 [2004-05-19 12:33 UTC] derick@php.net
That's feasible for the rewrite, but for the current parser.
 [2004-06-15 12:42 UTC] wb at pro-net dot co dot uk
So how would one, for example, use strtotime() to get the current time + 10 mins?
 [2004-07-05 11:13 UTC] niels dot hansen at pola dot dk
The functionality is maintained in RC3. 
I needs the realtime for logging of process. My workaround is to do this:
$str=date('d F Y h:i:s A');
$timestamp = strtotime("$str");
 [2004-07-12 21:50 UTC] patchwork14 at hotmail dot com
Will this bug be fixed before the final php5 release?

A lot of code will need rewriting before php5 is released if "now" is going to changed.

Wouldn't it be better to have

today = Monday 12th of July 2004 12:00:00 AM
now   = Monday 12th of July 2004 08:49:23 PM
 [2004-07-15 09:21 UTC] kilnight at hotmail dot com
I've been using strtotime() to calculate relative shifts in time, ie.

$real_now = strtotime("2004-07-15 00:16:35");
$exactly_one_day_ago = strtotime("-1 day", $real_now);
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $exactly_one_day_ago)

Expecting "2004-07-14 00:16:35"
but getting: "2004-07-14 00:00:00"

I'm sure there's a way around this, but I'm really not that bright... so I had to jump back to php4 for the time being.

So I also think that the "now" parameter should be real now, not GNU "now".
 [2004-09-01 19:57 UTC] tony at marston-home dot demon dot co dot uk
Until this behaviour is fixed so that now() means 'real now' and not 'GNU now' here is a workaround that works in both PHP 4 and PHP 5:

$real_now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$dt1 = strtotime("$real_now -1 day");
$dt2 = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $dt1);
 [2004-11-15 17:36 UTC] derick@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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