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Bug #25233 strtotime() fails on dates < Jan 1 1970
Submitted: 2003-08-25 05:31 UTC Modified: 2003-08-25 09:37 UTC
From: alain at valain dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.3.2 OS: Linux Redhat 7.3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-08-25 05:31 UTC] alain at valain dot com 
Description:
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The strtotime() function fails with -1 on dates that are < Jan 1 1970.

This makes other PHP functions like date() to return 
Jan 1 1970
on the "faulty" timestamp -1.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

$usernaiss = date("d/m/Y", strtotime("Dec 31 1969 12:00AM"));

echo "<html>\n";
echo "<head></head>\n";
echo "<body>\n";
echo "Date de naissance: " . $usernaiss . "<br>\n";
echo "</body>\n";
echo "</html>\n";
?>

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 [2003-08-25 09:37 UTC] jay@php.net 
This is a glibc problem. glibc is just following the POSIX 
standard now. See 
 
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=23475 
 
J
 
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