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Bug #34250 strtotime("next year") returns +2 years?
Submitted: 2005-08-25 17:42 UTC Modified: 2005-08-25 23:55 UTC
From: gecko at geckzilla dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.0.4 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-08-25 17:42 UTC] gecko at geckzilla dot com 
Description:
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Simply expecting for strtotime("next year") to return +1 year instead of +2.

Reproduce code:
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$nextyear = strtotime("next year");
$now = time();

echo date("F jS Y",$nextyear);
echo "<br>";
echo date("F jS Y",$now);

Expected result:
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August 25th 2006
August 25th 2005

Actual result:
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August 25th 2007
August 25th 2005

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 [2005-08-25 23:55 UTC] derick@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

This is expected for PHP < 5.1. In PHp 5.1 and 6.0 this will work just fine. The reasoning is that you have:
first = 1
next  = 2
third = 3
and follows the GNU standards. We did decide to fix this in PHP 5.1 though.
 
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