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Bug #36912 strtotime subtracting months
Submitted: 2006-03-29 13:35 UTC Modified: 2006-03-29 16:24 UTC
From: epilepticfridgeboy at hotmail dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: debian
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-29 13:35 UTC] epilepticfridgeboy at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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Subtracting a month using strtotime does not always subtract a month.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
print date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 month'));
?>


Expected result:
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Assuming the code is run on 2006-03-29, I would expect the result to be 2006-02-28, which is one month ago.

Actual result:
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2006-03-01

This is not one month ago. This has been reported as a bug before but marked as "Bogus" - no idea how not subtracting one month from a date correctly is bogus... and I wasn't allowed to add this to the notes system in the manual to warn others about this odd behaviour., so here it is again as a bug report.

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 [2006-03-29 16:24 UTC] derick@php.net 
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a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
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