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Bug #77243 Weekdays are calculated incorrectly for negative years
Submitted: 2018-12-05 14:32 UTC Modified: 2022-06-09 15:59 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: bjoern dot fischer at dezem dot de Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 7.2.12 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2018-12-05 14:32 UTC] bjoern dot fischer at dezem dot de
Description:
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When we reach negative years 'date()' calulates the day of the week 'N' incorrectly.

Apparently one day too much is subtracted in this case.
So that for example the date '-1-W52-3' is displayed as '-1-W52-2' instead, when using 'date()'.

The issue can be easily reproduced here:
https://3v4l.org/4Glr2

Test script:
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<?php
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

$time=-62167046400; // 0000-01-03 0-01-1

var_dump(date('Y-m-d o-W-N', $time - 86400));
var_dump(date('Y-m-d o-W-N', $time - 86400 * 2));
var_dump(date('Y-m-d o-W-N', $time - 86400 * 3), 'The issue appeared here. Expected: 0000-01-02 -1-52-5');
var_dump(date('Y-m-d o-W-N', $time - 86400 * 4));
var_dump(date('Y-m-d o-W-N', $time - 86400 * 5));

Expected result:
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The date should be formatted correctly and the displayed weekday should match the actual weekday for a timestamp.

Actual result:
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The date is formatted incorrectly and the displayed weekday, for negative years, is one less than the actual weekday.

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 [2018-12-05 15:41 UTC] danack@php.net
From the date page http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php :

The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer). However, before PHP 5.1.0 this range was limited from 01-01-1970 to 19-01-2038 on some systems (e.g. Windows).

You may need to use a more specific library to cope with BCE dates, and to do things like deal with the Julian to Gregorian calendar changes.
 [2020-10-17 13:52 UTC] cmb@php.net
> Expected: 0000-01-02

There is no year zero in the Gregorian nor the Julian calendar,
though.  Consider to use ext/calendar for such purposes.
 [2022-05-13 16:10 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2022-05-13 16:10 UTC] derick@php.net
Dan and Christoph are both incorrect.

PHP implements the ISO8601 calendar, which is the Gregorian calendar with the year 0. It supports timestamps in a 64-bit range, which is well beyond 1900 (like 213 billion years or so).

This indeed looks like a bug.
 [2022-05-13 16:10 UTC] derick@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: derick
 [2022-06-17 08:37 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of derickr
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/36990aab8eda82984d4c9c7ddaeb2c131b31382c
Log: Fixed bug #77243 (Weekdays are calculated incorrectly for negative years)
 [2022-06-17 08:37 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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