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

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55046&edit=1 ID: 55046 Updated by: dtajchreber@php.net Reported by: privat at thomasruecker dot at Summary: strtotime ->wrong results with "first wednesday june 2011" -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.17 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Your string is relative to the current date. You need to add the word 'of' to get the first Wednesday of a given month. [1] http://codepad.viper-7.com/qP9XIc [2] http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-13 16:33:41] privat at thomasruecker dot at This is always the case with the "number dayofweek month year" syntax, whenever you choose the "dayofweek" that correlates with the 1st of the month. for example If the 1.MM.YYYY is a wednesday, then "first wednesday month YYYY" returns 08.MM.YYYY, "second wednesday month YYYY" returns 15.MM.YYYY and so on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-13 16:30:15] privat at thomasruecker dot at 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55046&edit=1