Bug #54851 [NEW]: DateTime::createFromFormat, $format=='D' or $format=='l' Always Returns Today.

From: Operating system: Mac OS X PHP version: trunk-SVN-2011-05-18 (SVN) Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:DateTime::createFromFormat, $format=='D' or $format=='l' Always Returns Today. Description: ------------ If the format only includes a day string ('D' or 'l'), it is ignored, and a DateTime instance for the current date/time is returned. Maybe I'm a stupid idiot, but I would expect either an error, or for it to return a DateTime object for the next occurrence of the given day (similar to \DateTime::__construct('Monday');) Test script: --------------- <?php $date = new \DateTime('tomorrow'); $date2 = \DateTime::createFromFormat('D', $date->format('D')); var_dump($date); var_dump($date->format('D')); var_dump($date2); var_dump($date2->format('D')); Expected result: ---------------- I expect the same date/day to be selected in both cases. Actual result: -------------- object(DateTime)#1 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2011-05-19 00:00:00" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(16) "America/New_York" } string(3) "Thu" object(DateTime)#2 (3) { ["date"]=> string(19) "2011-05-18 18:49:33" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(16) "America/New_York" } string(3) "Wed" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54851&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54851&r=mysqlcfg