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Bug #34874 strtotime("<Day>",<time>) output differs from earlier PHP5 versions
Submitted: 2005-10-14 17:36 UTC Modified: 2005-10-20 10:09 UTC
From: dverspui at hotpop dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.1.0RC1 OS: Linux (Fedora 2)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-10-14 17:36 UTC] dverspui at hotpop dot com 
Description:
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strtotime("<day>",<time>) returns the specified day of the next week of <time> if <time> itself is on day <day>.


Reproduce code:
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print date("Ymd",strtotime(date("l",time()),time()));


Expected result:
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Output should be the date of today, but on my installation it returns the date of 7 days ahead. This differs from all earlier PHP versions.

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 [2005-10-14 21:40 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip
 [2005-10-15 00:09 UTC] dverspui at hotpop dot com 
Hi, thanks for your reply.
I succesfully compiled 5.1.0RC3-dev you gave me the link to, but the problem remains!
 [2005-10-15 00:19 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Looks like a feature, but I'm not sure.
Please have a look.
 [2005-10-18 13:54 UTC] derick@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

This was a bug in all earlier version. If today is "Tuesday October 18th" then the string "Tuesday" refers to the next one, which is October 25th.
 [2005-10-18 14:41 UTC] dverspui at hotpop dot com 
Hi Derick,

I would agree if it would include "next" like in:

print date("Ymd","next " . strtotime(date("l",time()),time()));

I think people in many projects have been using my
earlier example with all PHP versions prior to 5.1.0
and this breaks their code. E.g. I bumped into this when
using PHP iCalender.

After all, I cannot seem to find any exact specs on what
strtotime should return for my example. The manual nowhere
tells me that it will e.g. return next weeks tuesday if
the specified time is on a tuesday. It will definitely
returns a tuesday, but which one then??
 [2005-10-19 23:11 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2005-10-20 10:09 UTC] dverspui at hotpop dot com 
Thanks, works great!
 
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