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Bug #51012 February 30th is a valid date for strtotime
Submitted: 2010-02-11 11:21 UTC Modified: 2010-02-11 12:13 UTC
From: stlwrt at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.3.1 OS: Fedora 12, OSX 10.6.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-02-11 11:21 UTC] stlwrt at gmail dot com 
Description:
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strtotime accepts "2010-02-30" as a valid date and converts it to 
timestamp

Reproduce code:
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<?php var_dump(strtotime('2010-02-30')); ?>


Expected result:
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bool(false)


Actual result:
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int(1267480800)

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 [2010-02-11 12:13 UTC] johannes@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

use check_date() for validating dates.
 
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