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Bug #44188 strtotime and excepting dates...
Submitted: 2008-02-20 15:25 UTC Modified: 2008-02-20 16:06 UTC
From: rgermain at efiretechnologies dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Linux/Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-02-20 15:25 UTC] rgermain at efiretechnologies dot com
Description:
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The strtotime() function doesn't except the date format mm-dd-yyyy. I does however except dd-mm-yyyy. This is in version 5.2.5.  In version 4.4.4 it does except the format of mm-dd-yyyy.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
$one_day = 60 * 60 * 24;

for($i=0; $i < 365; $i++)
{
	$new_day = $one_day * $i;
	$new_date = time() + $new_day;
	$fdate = date("m-d-Y", $new_date);
	
	echo "<br>";
	echo "Next day: " . $fdate . "<br>";
	echo "StrtoTime: " . strtotime($fdate);
	echo "<br>";
}
?>



Expected result:
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All the days should output the correct date in the format of mm-dd-yyyy and the strtotime should all output.



Actual result:
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strtotime stops outputting on the 13th day and starts again on the 1st of the following month.

This tells me that it only excepts dd-mm-yyyy.

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 [2008-02-20 16:06 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

Yup, that\'s correct. PHP 5.3 will have a better mechanism to parsing formats that are not directly understood.
 
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