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Request #74797 strtotime() doesn't accept date with spaces in it
Submitted: 2017-06-22 14:15 UTC Modified: 2021-03-12 10:50 UTC
From: hofman dot tomas at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Wont fix Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: Next Minor Version OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-06-22 14:15 UTC] hofman dot tomas at gmail dot com 
Description:
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It will be nice, that strtotime() function could parse date format with dots and spaces to. Now strtotime('22.6.2017') returns 1498082400, but typographicaly correct version strtotime('22. 6. 2017') returns false. In some languages/typographic convetions (like Czech or German) format with spaces is correct, but strtotime() not supports it. Is it possible to have also this one?

Test script:
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<?php

echo var_dump(strtotime('22.6.2017'));
echo var_dump(strtotime('22. 6. 2017'));

?>

Expected result:
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int(1498082400)
int(1498082400)

Actual result:
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int(1498082400)
bool(false)

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 [2017-06-22 21:25 UTC] derick@php.net 
strtotime can't possibly support *all* formats in existence, that's why you can use DateTime::createFromFormat instead:

https://3v4l.org/dXWqD
 [2021-03-12 10:50 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-03-12 10:50 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I agree that we should not make strtotime() even more "flexible",
besides that we would need to implement our own parser, instead of
being able to use timelib_strtotime().
 
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