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Bug #43555 strtotime not parsing UK date format (dd/mm/yyyy)
Submitted: 2007-12-10 16:47 UTC Modified: 2007-12-10 18:33 UTC
From: tim dot kay at mailshack dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Windows 2003 SP2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-12-10 16:47 UTC] tim dot kay at mailshack dot com 
Description:
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strtotime does not parse a date in UK format properly.  

Server locale (in Windows) is set to English (United Kingdom) in all places configurable.

The following line of code:
echo setlocale(LC_ALL, ''); 

Comes back with the following result:
English_United Kingdom.1252

I am running Apache 2.2.6.

Reproduce code:
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$mydate = strtotime("20/11/2007");
echo $mydate."<br/>";
echo date("Y-M-d h:i:s", $mydate);

Expected result:
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1195516800
2007-Nov-20 12:00:00


Actual result:
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1970-Jan-01 01:00:00

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 [2007-12-10 18:33 UTC] derick@php.net 
strtotime() is not locale dependent, and simply not all formats are supported-the UK date format is one of those apparently. Some functionality to parse formats with a given format might follow in the future.
 
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