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Bug #28951 strtotime bad dates for "Jan 2002"
Submitted: 2004-06-28 19:50 UTC Modified: 2004-07-06 15:42 UTC
From: foxyshadis1 at dslextreme dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.3.7 OS: Win2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-06-28 19:50 UTC] foxyshadis1 at dslextreme dot com 
Description:
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strtotime is attempting and failing to read dates in a "month year" format. Both long and short months are affected. It is then returning wildly wrong timestamps. Since the date cannot be correctly parsed, it should return -1, or be modified to correctly parse it.

Reproduce code:
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echo date("j M Y",strtotime("May 2001"));

Expected result:
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1 May 2001

or

1 January 1969

Actual result:
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22 Oct 2009

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 [2004-06-29 00:16 UTC] no dot email at nowhere dot com dot invalid 
strtotime /is/ parsing correctly, it is treating it as Month Day. 2001st of May 2004 = 22nd October 2009. Pass a day to avoid confusion.
 [2004-06-29 08:58 UTC] derick@php.net 
It returns the expected result "29 May 2004" to me.
 [2004-06-29 09:02 UTC] foxyshadis1 at dslextreme dot com 
Is this with the win32 version? There may be a discrepancy.
 [2004-07-06 15:42 UTC] sniper@php.net 
strtotime is sort of 'fuzzy' function. Do not pass just anything to it..as you'll get out just about anything then.
 [2004-07-06 15:42 UTC] sniper@php.net 
strtotime is sort of 'fuzzy' function. Do not pass just anything to it..as you'll get out just about anything then.
 
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