Bug #53741 [NEW]: DateTime, date_create, strtotime - wrong result on realtive date time string

From: Operating system: inux 2.6.36.3 x86_64 PHP version: 5.2.17 Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:DateTime, date_create, strtotime - wrong result on realtive date time string Description: ------------ parsing of relative date/time string "midnight first day last month" returns a wrong result in php 5.2.17 Test script: --------------- <?php print_r(date_create('midnight first day last month')); print $d->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n"; print date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('midnight first day last month')); Expected result: ---------------- // relative to current date/time - 2011-01-13 17:23 DateTime Object ( [date] => 2010-12-01 00:00:00 [timezone_type] => 3 [timezone] => Europe/Berlin ) 2010-12-01 00:00:00 2010-12-01 00:00:00 Actual result: -------------- // relative to current date/time - 2011-01-13 17:23 DateTime Object ( ) 2010-12-14 00:00:00 2010-12-14 00:00:00 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53741&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53741&r=mysqlcfg