#50682 [NEW]: strtotime producing incorrect result

From: keefeg at gmail dot com Operating system: FreeBSD 6.2 PHP version: 5.2.12 PHP Bug Type: Date/time related Bug description: strtotime producing incorrect result Description: ------------ strtotime does not handle the "last month" parameter correctly all the time. Reproduce code: --------------- --- From manual page: function.strtotime#Description --- $ny = strtotime("31 December 2009"); echo "this month: " . date('Ym', strtotime("now", $ny)) . "\n"; echo "last month: " . date('Ym', strtotime("last month", $ny)) . "\n"; Expected result: ---------------- I would like it to produce this result: this month: 200912 last month: 200911 Actual result: -------------- It prints this result: this month: 200912 last month: 200912 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50682&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50682&r=mysqlcfg