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Bug #19165 strtotime does not return -1 on some invalid dates
Submitted: 2002-08-29 03:43 UTC Modified: 2003-10-28 16:26 UTC
From: jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.2.2 OS: Red Hat Linux 7.2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2002-08-29 03:43 UTC] jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp
This code shows that strtotime does not recognize some dates that are in the correct format but invalid:

$bod = "1970-1-222";
echo "I think that $bod is timestamp " . strtotime($bod) . "<BR>";
echo "and that would be " . date("Y-n-d",strtotime($bod)). "<BR>";

The output is:

I think that 1970-1-222 is timestamp 19062000
and that would be 1970-8-10

The documentation says that strtotime should report -1 on a failure. Shouldn't this be a failure?

Jc

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 [2002-08-29 03:47 UTC] derick@php.net
I'm marking this as duplicate of 19166, because IMO this is a documentation problem rather than a problem in the code.

Derick
 [2002-08-29 03:51 UTC] jc at mega-bucks dot co dot jp
Ok. Does this mean that strtotime() is *not* meant to pick up invalid date inputs and fail on them?
 [2002-08-29 08:35 UTC] derick@php.net
Marking this as dup of 18101 instead, this beast needs rewriting :)

Derick
 [2003-10-28 16:26 UTC] sniper@php.net
Fixed in PHP 5, wont fix in PHP 4.

 
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