Bug #78203 [Opn->Nab]: date_create function behaves weird if the argument is "a string"

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78203&edit=1 ID: 78203 Updated by: requinix@php.net Reported by: masergiu at gmail dot com Summary: date_create function behaves weird if the argument is "a string" -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: any PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Expected: "test" is parsed to be a timezone (1-6 letters), but there is no such timezone so that's an error. Unexpected: "a" is parsed to be a timezone as well, and it exists as the military-style timezone UTC+1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones "test" is still parsed as a timezone, but ignored because there already was one specified in the input string; DateTime::getLastErrors() reports "Double timezone specification". https://3v4l.org/1ViMC PHP's date string interpretation is optimistic: it assumes the input is a valid date and tries to derive the most reasonable result. If the input isn't valid then parsing may fail, or it may manage to identify something meaningful that it can translate to a date - probably with warnings. Or as the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out. It's really easy to say "lolphp" when you don't bother trying to understand, huh? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-09-02 11:18:06] lol at reddit dot com This is lolphp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-06-25 07:02:32] masergiu at gmail dot com Description: ------------ DateTime::__construct and its alias, date_create function, are returning weird results for the following cases: 1. date_create('test') => returns false, which is expected according to documentation; 2. date_create('a test') => retuns the DateTime object constructed as "new DateTime('now')", which is not expected. Same is valid for new DateTime() process: 1. new DateTime('test') => throws Exception, which is expected according to documentation; 2. new DateTime('a test') = retuns the DateTime object constructed as "new DateTime('now')", which is not expected. Test script: --------------- php -r "var_dump(date_create('test')); // EXPECTED result" php -r "var_dump(date_create('a test')); // UNEXPECTED result" Expected result: ---------------- For the script below it should return FALSE also: php -r "var_dump(date_create('a test')); // UNEXPECTED result" Actual result: -------------- For the script below it returns DateTime object constructed as "new DateTime('now')": php -r "var_dump(date_create('a test')); // UNEXPECTED result" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78203&edit=1