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Request #61962 Relative format : second/third... not parsed
Submitted: 2012-05-06 11:30 UTC Modified: 2022-05-13 13:39 UTC
Votes:2
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Reproduced:1 of 2 (50.0%)
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Same OS:-1 (-100.0%)
From: francois dot dambrine at isen-lille dot fr Assigned: heiglandreas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.4.2 OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-05-06 11:30 UTC] francois dot dambrine at isen-lille dot fr
Description:
------------
As I was testing a script where I need to get the second day of previous month I 
found out this issue : I can't get this day with that phrase.
With larger tests I got the issue for every "ordinal" keyword apart from "first" 
and "last".

Test script:
---------------
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');
$firstDay = new DateTime('first day of previous month');
echo $firstDay->format('l').PHP_EOL;
$lastDay = new DateTime('last day of previous month');
echo $lastDay->format('l').PHP_EOL;
$secondDay = new DateTime('second day of previous month');
echo $secondDay->format('l').PHP_EOL;
$thirdDay = new DateTime('third day of previous month');
echo $thirdDay->format('l').PHP_EOL;

Expected result:
----------------
Sunday
Monday
Monday
Tuesday

Actual result:
--------------
Sunday
Monday
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 
'DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (second day of previous 
month) at position 11 (o): The timezone could not be found in the database' in 
/home/isen/essai.php:7
Stack trace:
#0 /home/isen/essai.php(7): DateTime->__construct('second day of p...')
#1 {main}
  thrown in /home/isen/essai.php on line 7

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 
'DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (second day of previous 
month) at position 11 (o): The timezone could not be found in the database' in 
/home/isen/essai.php:7
Stack trace:
#0 /home/isen/essai.php(7): DateTime->__construct('second day of p...')
#1 {main}
  thrown in /home/isen/essai.php on line 7


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 [2012-05-11 15:47 UTC] zhanglijiu at gmail dot com
There is no parameter 'second,third day of previous month'.
 [2012-05-11 16:38 UTC] derick@php.net
-Package: Date/time related +Package: *General Issues
 [2012-05-11 16:38 UTC] derick@php.net
This is just not implemented. For you now, you'll have to do:

$firstDay = new DateTime('first day of previous month');
$firstDay->modify( 'next day' );
 [2016-06-14 11:41 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: *General Issues +Package: Date/time related
 [2016-06-14 11:41 UTC] cmb@php.net
> This is just not implemented.

So I'm changing to feature request.
 [2017-01-13 07:03 UTC] heiglandreas@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: heiglandreas
 [2022-05-13 13:39 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2022-05-13 13:39 UTC] derick@php.net
I am closing this, as this would increase the parser complexity significantly, with a reasonable workaround available. If you have a really compelling case, feel free to add a ticket to https://github.com/php/php-src/issues, but it needs to have a really good reason for this to get added.
 
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