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Bug #70563 strtotime accepts spaces, dots and comma's as valid
Submitted: 2015-09-23 14:03 UTC Modified: 2021-04-05 16:21 UTC
From: daftwally at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-09-23 14:03 UTC] daftwally at gmail dot com
Description:
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the strtotime() function accepts a string with one or more spaces (' '), one or more dots  ('.') or one or more comma's (',') or a combination of these with no other valid date/time information as acceptable and returns a timestamp (now) instead of the expected FALSE.

Here is the output on a bunch of different PHP versions -> https://3v4l.org/kSH46

Test script:
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<?php
	var_dump(strtotime(" "));
	var_dump(strtotime(","));
	var_dump(strtotime("."));
	var_dump(strtotime(". .. .. .. .... .. . .. ."));
	var_dump(strtotime(". .. .. .. ..,,,.. .. . .. ."));
	var_dump(strtotime("bogus"));

Expected result:
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boolean false
boolean false
boolean false
boolean false
boolean false
boolean false

Actual result:
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int 1443016200
int 1443016200
int 1443016200
int 1443016200
int 1443016200
boolean false

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 [2018-03-29 18:13 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2021-04-05 16:21 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Not a bug
 [2021-04-05 16:21 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
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