Bug #55046 [NEW]: strtotime ->wrong results with "first wednesday june 2011"

From: Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.2.17 Package: Date/time related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:strtotime ->wrong results with "first wednesday june 2011" Description: ------------ <code> $timestr="first wednesday june 2011"; echo date("d.m.Y",strtotime($timestr)); </code> Then the result is the 08.06.2011, and not the 01.06.2011 as i expected. This happens whenever the "first" should be the 01.XX.YYYY Same thing happens with the "second","third","fourth","fifth". Test script: --------------- $timestr="first wednesday june 2011"; echo date("d.m.Y",strtotime($timestr)); Expected result: ---------------- 01.06.2011 Actual result: -------------- 08.06.2011 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55046&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55046&r=mysqlcfg