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Bug #67354 Invalid year parse
Submitted: 2014-05-28 18:14 UTC Modified: 2014-05-28 18:31 UTC
From: dr dot hab dot freek at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.4.28 OS: Debian
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-05-28 18:14 UTC] dr dot hab dot freek at gmail dot com 
Description:
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So - we see in manual strtotime() should working great with all formats from http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php so if we run:
date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('2008')); //return current date with the wrong time - 2014-05-28 20:08:00

So we can't use strtotime(date('Y')) so we should add month:
strtotime(date('Y-m')) - then it works.

Test script:
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date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('2008'));

Expected result:
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2008-01-01 00:00:00

Actual result:
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2014-05-28 20:08:00 //invalid date with modified time

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 [2014-05-28 18:28 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Package: *Data Exchange functions +Package: Date/time related
 [2014-05-28 18:28 UTC] requinix@php.net 
> So - we see in manual strtotime() should working great with all formats from
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php
Not necessarily. It shows you all the formats that can be parsed but that doesn't mean each one by itself is suitable for use.
#### matches against HHMM first. strtotime('1999') will give you the kind of result you're looking for.

You want mktime(): date('Y-m-d H:i:s', mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2008))
 [2014-05-28 18:31 UTC] requinix@php.net 
> strtotime('1999') will give you the kind of result you're looking for.
By that I mean it gives you a timestamp from that year. It won't be for midnight on January 1st but instead copies the current time's components.
 
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