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Bug #69408 Date strings consisting of year > 1999 not properly parsed
Submitted: 2015-04-09 15:38 UTC Modified: 2015-04-09 18:06 UTC
From: jkronika at gridlined dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.5.23 OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-04-09 15:38 UTC] jkronika at gridlined dot com
Description:
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When parsing strings containing only a year, it appears that certain ranges of years do not get parsed appropriately. This is a cause, at least in my case, of very difficult to debug errors.

Test script:
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echo var_export(date_parse('1999'), true)."\n\n";
echo var_export(date_parse('2001'), true);

Expected result:
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array (
  'year' => 1999,
  'month' => false,
  'day' => false,
  'hour' => false,
  'minute' => false,
  'second' => false,
  ...
)

array (
  'year' => 2001,
  'month' => false,
  'day' => false,
  'hour' => false,
  'minute' => false,
  'second' => false,
  ...
)

Actual result:
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array (
  'year' => 1999,
  'month' => false,
  'day' => false,
  'hour' => false,
  'minute' => false,
  'second' => false,
  ...
)

array (
  'year' => false,
  'month' => false,
  'day' => false,
  'hour' => 20,
  'minute' => 1,
  'second' => 0,
  ...
)

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 [2015-04-09 18:06 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-04-09 18:06 UTC] requinix@php.net
date_parse() follows the rules for strtotime(), which prefers parsing times over dates. 2000 is a valid time format (HHMM) but 1999 isn't so it's interpreted as a year.

Use date_parse_from_format() instead.
http://3v4l.org/QvVoR
 
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