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Bug #52454 Relative dates and getTimestamp increments by one day
Submitted: 2010-07-27 11:46 UTC Modified: 2010-08-30 18:26 UTC
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From: ben dot davies at stickyeyes dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.3.3 OS: Windows 7 Professional
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-07-27 11:46 UTC] ben dot davies at stickyeyes dot com 
Description:
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If you create a DateTime object using a relative date string of "this week +6 days", when calling getTimestamp on the datetime object, the date is mysteriously increments by one day. However, if you seperately modify the datetime using 'this week', then '+6 days', it works correctly.

Where is the additional day comeing from, and why is it only applied when calling format('U') DOESNT increment the datetime by 1 day. Wierd!

Here is a work around:

$endOfWeek = new DateTime();
$endOfWeek->modify('this week');
$endOfWeek->modify('+6 days');

echo $endOfWeek->format('Y-m-d H:m:s')."\n";
echo $endOfWeek->format('U')."\n";

/* Thar she blows! */
echo $endOfWeek->getTimestamp()."\n";

echo $endOfWeek->format('Y-m-d H:m:s')."\n";

Test script:
---------------
$endOfWeek = new DateTime();
$endOfWeek->modify('this week +6 days');

echo $endOfWeek->format('Y-m-d H:m:s')."\n";
echo $endOfWeek->format('U')."\n";

/* Thar she blows! */
echo $endOfWeek->getTimestamp()."\n";

echo $endOfWeek->format('Y-m-d H:m:s')."\n";


Expected result:
----------------
DateTime should stay the same after a call to getTimestamp (surely getTimestamp should be safe from side effects)

Patches

52454_date_get_timestamp.patch (last revision 2010-08-20 10:03 UTC by mike at iammike dot co dot uk)

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 [2010-07-27 11:59 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: derick
 [2010-08-20 11:43 UTC] mike at iammike dot co dot uk 
I believe I've encountered the same bug although with slightly different 
effects.

Code to reproduce
-----------------
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");

$s = new DateTime;
$e = new DateTime("+3 months");
$i = new DateInterval("P1M");
$p = new DatePeriod($s, $i, $e);

foreach($p as $m) {
	$m->getTimestamp();
	$m->getTimestamp();
	echo $m->format("Y-m-d") . "\n";
}


Expected results
----------------
2010-08-20
2010-09-20
2010-10-20

Actual results
--------------
2010-08-20
2010-11-20
2010-12-20

I first encountered this in PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 but I've verified it's still 
there in PHP 5.3.99-dev (trunk snapshot 201008200830).

Additional calls to getTimestamp cause the month to be incremented further.

Interestingly, if you swap "+3 months" for "+3 years" and "P1M" for "P1Y" the 
year is affected instead of the month.
 [2010-08-20 12:05 UTC] mike at iammike dot co dot uk 
Removing the call to timelib_ts_update in date_get_timestamp as per 
52454_date_get_timestamp.patch fixes it.

I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do but I can't think of a good reason 
you'd need to update anything when retrieving a timestamp.
 [2010-08-30 18:25 UTC] derick@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of derick
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=302890
Log: - Fixed bug #52454 (Relative dates and getTimestamp increments by one day)
 [2010-08-30 18:26 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2010-08-30 18:26 UTC] derick@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in SVN.

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