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Doc Bug #19515 Parameters of function strtotime() seem wrong
Submitted: 2002-09-20 02:23 UTC Modified: 2002-09-20 02:27 UTC
From: dallas@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-09-20 OS:
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 [2002-09-20 02:23 UTC] dallas@php.net 
Function strtotime() is defined as below:

int strtotime ( string time [, int now])

But when I try this function, whatever value I provide to 'now' seem no affect to the result at all.
I've tried following example:

echo strtotime("Jan 1 1970"), "\n";
echo strtotime("Jan 1 1970", 10000), "\n";
echo strtotime("Jan 1 1970", time()), "\n";

and the result is(PHP 4.0.6, 4.2.3, 4.3.0, Linux, Windows):

18000
18000
18000

I'm in GMT-0500, so I guess the result is correct.  But what exactly the parameter 'now' for?  I supposed strtotime() function behave correctly,  so 'now' is just meaningless.

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 [2002-09-20 02:27 UTC] cynic@php.net 
"Jan 1 1970" is an absolute date. how do you want to change it's timestamp?
reread the docs.
 
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