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Request #62166 createfromFormat assign current time by default when reading date only string.
Submitted: 2012-05-26 10:45 UTC Modified: 2012-07-14 23:51 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 0.9
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (66.7%)
From: lenzai2004-dev at yahoo dot fr Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.3.13 OS: Ubuntu 11.10 64bits
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-05-26 10:45 UTC] lenzai2004-dev at yahoo dot fr 
Description:
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DateTime:createFromFormat() and DateTime::__construct are not consistent for parsing dates.

__construct sets default time at 00:00:00
DateTime::createFromFormat() sets default time at current time

Test script:
---------------
var_export(DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d","2012-05-11"));
var_export(new DateTime("2012-05-11"));


Expected result:
----------------
DateTime::__set_state(array(
   'date' => '2012-05-11 00:00:00',
   'timezone_type' => 3,
   'timezone' => 'Asia/Chongqing',
))
	DateTime::__set_state(array(
   'date' => '2012-05-11 00:00:00',
   'timezone_type' => 3,
   'timezone' => 'Asia/Chongqing',
))

Actual result:
--------------
DateTime::__set_state(array(
   'date' => '2012-05-11 18:34:45',
   'timezone_type' => 3,
   'timezone' => 'Asia/Chongqing',
))
	DateTime::__set_state(array(
   'date' => '2012-05-11 00:00:00',
   'timezone_type' => 3,
   'timezone' => 'Asia/Chongqing',
))

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 [2012-07-07 19:59 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2012-07-07 19:59 UTC] stas@php.net 
The documentation for date_create_from_format states:

! Resets all fields (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fraction and timzone 
information) to the Unix Epoch Without !, all fields will be set to the current 
date and time.

So maybe the format should be !Y-m-d? Would that solve the issue?
 [2012-07-07 20:29 UTC] lenzai2004-dev at yahoo dot fr
-Status: Feedback +Status: Open
 [2012-07-07 20:29 UTC] lenzai2004-dev at yahoo dot fr 
Thank you for your Help. Sorry for misreading documentation.
 [2012-07-14 23:51 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2012-07-14 23:51 UTC] stas@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
 
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