Bug #67127 [Opn->Ana]: setlocale LC_NUMERIC breaks DateTime microseconds

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67127&edit=1 ID: 67127 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: honzap at gmail dot com Summary: setlocale LC_NUMERIC breaks DateTime microseconds -Status: Open +Status: Analyzed Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Linux (Debian Wheezy) PHP Version: 5.4.27 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: derick Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I can confirm this issue. The culprit is in timelib_get_frac_nr() where strtod() is used[1], which is locale dependend. Using zend_strtod() instead would solve the issue, but that would make timelib depending on the Zend engine, what is certainly not desired. Derick, what do you think about including some locale independent strtod() replacement[2]. @wilfrid Your issue is unrelated to this bug report, and actually, it is not a bug, but rather being caused by setlocale() not being thread safe[3]. Consider to use the intl extension[4] instead. [1] <https://github.com/derickr/timelib/blob/master/parse_date.re#L514> [2] fe. <http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8/missing/strtod.c> [3] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php#refsect1-function.setlocale-notes> [4] <http://php.net/manual/en/intro.intl.php> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-06-03 22:16:06] wilfrid at digifactory dot fr We have a problem link to this LC_NUMERIC issue : float numbers suddently get coma rather than point for decimal separator. It's extremely problematic as it's in several ecommerce websites. Also, is rare and really random (kind of 1 per 10 000 entries). As it's the LC_NUMERIC, str_replace(",", ".", $str) doesn't work. we are using PHP 5.4.26 on a debian. On the same server, we noticed a similar problem with LC_TIME : setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR'); // fixed in the top of the php script. and randomly, an average of 1 on 20 reload, we have a date displayed in english. We noticed that putting the setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR'); just before the strftime('%A %d %B') seems to work arround the bug, for now. Voilà, hope it can help ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-24 09:47:19] honzap at gmail dot com Description: ------------ I need using DateTime with microseconds. I've found some examples like at this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169428/php-datetime-microseconds-always-returns-0 I've used my own class extending \DateTime. Formatting still doesn't work in my application so I've looking for something bad and found setting setlocale(LC_ALL, ...) calling. I've found, setting LC_NUMERIC breaks down the function of microseconds. Testing script is at the attachment. It's probably caused because in my chosen locale the decimal point is comma (",") not point ("."). Test script: --------------- date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Prague'); $time = microtime(true); $micro_time = sprintf("%06d", ($time - floor($time)) * 1000000); $date = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s.' . $micro_time, $time)); echo $date->format("Y-m-d H:i:s.u") . " - OK\n"; setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'cs_CZ.utf8'); $date = new DateTime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s.' . $micro_time, $time)); echo $date->format("Y-m-d H:i:s.u") . " - BAD!\n"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67127&edit=1