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Bug #70186 strtotime -1 month has a bug in 2015-07-31
Submitted: 2015-08-03 03:00 UTC Modified: 2015-08-03 03:23 UTC
From: vb2005xu at qq dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.6.11 OS: all
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-08-03 03:00 UTC] vb2005xu at qq dot com 
Description:
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<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Shanghai');
$tn = strtotime("2015-07-31");
echo date('Y-m' , strtotime("-1 month",$tn));
// why output 2015-07 ?

Test script:
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<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Shanghai');
$tn = strtotime("2015-07-31");
echo date('Y-m' , strtotime("-1 month",$tn));

Expected result:
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2015-06

Actual result:
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2015-07

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 [2015-08-03 03:09 UTC] vb2005xu at qq dot com 
Is not just in July 31st, March 31st, May 31st, July 31st, October 31st, December 31st, there is this problem, as long as the number of days in January is less than the current number of days will appear this problem
 [2015-08-03 03:23 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-08-03 03:23 UTC] requinix@php.net 
strtotime() handles addition and subtraction the same way functions like mktime() do: do the math according to how you told it, then fix the date so it's valid. "-1 month" will subtract one from the month resulting in 2015-06-31, which overflows to 2015-07-01.

If you want the last day of the previous month then you must to explicitly tell it to do that (eg, I believe "last day of previous month" will do that). Otherwise you need to figure out how you want your application to behave with this edge case.
 [2017-10-31 10:38 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Related To: Bug #75468
 
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