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Bug #50534 strtotime does not return false with wrong input
Submitted: 2009-12-19 23:51 UTC Modified: 2009-12-20 00:00 UTC
From: scripting at frag-em dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.12 OS: CentOS 4.3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-12-19 23:51 UTC] scripting at frag-em dot com 
Description:
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strtotime parses some forms of characters (probably as long as there is a separation with dots) to timestamps.
If there's no real date, it fails to return false.

date_default_timezone_set has been properly set

Reproduce code:
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date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Amsterdam');
$time = strtotime("T.B.A.");
var_dump($time);
$time = strtotime("T.BA.");
var_dump($time);
$time = strtotime("TB.A.");
var_dump($time);
$time = strtotime("TBA");
var_dump($time);

Expected result:
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bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(false)

Actual result:
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int(somenumberthatchanges)
int(somenumberthatchanges)
bool(false)
bool(false)

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 [2009-12-20 00:00 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

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This is already fixed for PHP 5.3.
 
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