Bug #69408 [Opn->Nab]: Date strings consisting of year > 1999 not properly parsed

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69408&edit=1 ID: 69408 Updated by: requinix@php.net Reported by: jkronika at gridlined dot com Summary: Date strings consisting of year > 1999 not properly parsed -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Ubuntu PHP Version: 5.5.23 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: date_parse() follows the rules for strtotime(), which prefers parsing times over dates. 2000 is a valid time format (HHMM) but 1999 isn't so it's interpreted as a year. Use date_parse_from_format() instead. http://3v4l.org/QvVoR Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-04-09 15:38:37] jkronika at gridlined dot com Description: ------------ When parsing strings containing only a year, it appears that certain ranges of years do not get parsed appropriately. This is a cause, at least in my case, of very difficult to debug errors. Test script: --------------- echo var_export(date_parse('1999'), true)."\n\n"; echo var_export(date_parse('2001'), true); Expected result: ---------------- array ( 'year' => 1999, 'month' => false, 'day' => false, 'hour' => false, 'minute' => false, 'second' => false, ... ) array ( 'year' => 2001, 'month' => false, 'day' => false, 'hour' => false, 'minute' => false, 'second' => false, ... ) Actual result: -------------- array ( 'year' => 1999, 'month' => false, 'day' => false, 'hour' => false, 'minute' => false, 'second' => false, ... ) array ( 'year' => false, 'month' => false, 'day' => false, 'hour' => 20, 'minute' => 1, 'second' => 0, ... ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69408&edit=1