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Bug #42311 Intermittent failure of test bug35885.phpt
Submitted: 2007-08-15 13:48 UTC Modified: 2008-11-10 01:00 UTC
From: robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.2.3 OS: Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-08-15 13:48 UTC] robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com 
Description:
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Test http://lxr.php.net/source/php-src/ext/date/tests/bug35885.phpt compares two time stamps representing the current time. However, these timestamps are seized in separate statements.

The comparison fails intermittently, because the seconds occasionally tick over between the two calls.

Below is bug35885.phpt enclosed in a loop to prove that it fails intermittently. It will break out of the loop on failure. Expected time to failure is less than 10 seconds.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");

while (true) {
	$ts = date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime('NOW'));
	$ts2 = date(DATE_ISO8601, time());
	
	$res = ($ts == $ts2);
	var_dump($res);
	
	if (!$res) {
		var_dump($ts);
		var_dump($ts2);
		break;
	}
}
?>

Expected result:
----------------
N/A (loop)

Actual result:
--------------
bool(true)
bool(true)
[...]
bool(true)
bool(false)
string(24) "2007-08-15T13:26:05+0000"
string(24) "2007-08-15T13:26:06+0000"

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 [2007-08-15 13:53 UTC] robin_fernandes at uk dot ibm dot com 
Below is a suggested patch which modifies the test to allow for a 1 second margin between the timestamps. I have confirmed the resulting test passes consistently on Windows on PHP 5.2.3, but have done no further testing.


Index: C:/php5-latest-phpt/ext/date/tests/bug35885.phpt
===================================================================
--- C:/php5-latest-phpt/ext/date/tests/bug35885.phpt	(revision 13029)
+++ C:/php5-latest-phpt/ext/date/tests/bug35885.phpt	(working copy)
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 <?php
 date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
 
-$ts = date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime('NOW'));
-$ts2 = date(DATE_ISO8601, time());
+$ts = strtotime('NOW');
+$ts2 = time();
 
-$res = ($ts == $ts2);
+$res = ($ts == $ts2) || ($ts == $ts2-1);
 var_dump($res);
 
 if (!$res) {
-	var_dump($ts);
-	var_dump($ts2);
+	var_dump(date(DATE_ISO8601, $ts));
+	var_dump(date(DATE_ISO8601, $ts2));
 }
 
 ?>
 [2007-08-16 06:39 UTC] jani@php.net 
Assigned to the ext/date maintainer.
 [2008-11-02 12:59 UTC] jani@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
 [2008-11-10 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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the status of the bug back to "Open".
 
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