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Bug #63929 wrong year in strtotime
Submitted: 2013-01-07 10:21 UTC Modified: 2013-01-07 15:37 UTC
From: daniz at rocketmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
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 [2013-01-07 10:21 UTC] daniz at rocketmail dot com 
Description:
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Year is wrong in result based on test.


Test script:
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$date = "2013-01-07";
echo date('W Y', strtotime("-1 week", strtotime($date)));

Expected result:
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Should be "01 2013"


Actual result:
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Result is "01 2012"

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 [2013-01-07 12:43 UTC] r07271368 at hotmail dot com 
Please try this:

$date = "2013-01-07";
$earlier = strtotime("-1 week", strtotime($date));
// should result in 31 Dec 2012, which is a Monday
echo date('r', $earlier); // to make sure we have the right date
echo "\n";
echo date('W Y', $earlier); // what you have
echo "\n";
echo date('W o', $earlier); // what I think you want
echo "\n";

I ran it and got this:

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000
01 2012
01 2013
 [2013-01-07 13:11 UTC] daniz at rocketmaik dot com 
Indeed you're assumption is correct.
Reading the info regarding the 'o' gives meening why I'm seeing what I'm seeing.

Thanks
 [2013-01-07 15:37 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

As the other commenter said, for the ISO Year, you need the "o".
 [2013-01-07 15:37 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 
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