Bug #62194 [Opn->Nab]: Bug on using strtotime to date

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62194&edit=1 ID: 62194 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported by: kg_emopunk at yahoo dot com Summary: Bug on using strtotime to date -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux/ Windows PHP Version: 5.3.13 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: There isn't really a bug here. If you try this same script tomorrow you will get your expected output. strtotime() will use the current date for any missing info, so since today is the 31st of the month, it will try to get the 31st of each month. Any month that doesn't have 31 days will end up giving you the appropriate offset into the following month. This is consistent with relative date offsets and related to the standard Unix approach to handling impossible dates described here: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Relative-items-in-date- strings.html#SEC125 The real solution is to specify a day in the month if you want your code to work reliably. As in strtotime("$key 1") Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-05-31 05:49:20] kg_emopunk at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.strtotime --- There is a slight bug using strtotime to date. When the strtotime parameter is only Month, the output adding date syntax is incorrect. Incorrect month outputs: Feb / February Apr / April Jun / June Sep / September Nov / November The solution for this is to add a day or a year. e.g ( date("F",strtotime($month." ".$day)); ) Test script: --------------- <?php $s=array('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'); $s1=array('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'); echo "<h4> 3 Letters Months </h4>"; foreach ($s as $key) { echo date("F",strtotime($key))."<br>"; } echo "<h4> Full Text Months </h4>"; foreach ($s1 as $key) { echo date("F",strtotime($key))."<br>"; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- 3 Letters Months January February March April May June July August September October November December Full Text Months January February March April May June July August September October November December Actual result: -------------- 3 Letters Months January March March May May July July August October October December December ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62194&edit=1