#22814 [Com]: strtotime error

ID: 22814 Comment by: paulmah at pbi dot com dot sg Reported By: dizit at mail dot ru Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Windows XP PHP Version: 4.3.0 Assigned To: hholzgra New Comment: I encounter this problem too. On PHP 4.3.2 on Debian Linux, compiled from source. Running on Apache 1.3.x strtotime seems to *randomly* return "1". More details: Our (in-house) accounting application uses strtotime on MSSQL-returned data. Upon upgrading to 4.3.2, we noticed that there are random (about 10-20%) instances where strtotime just returns 1. It cannot be the data problem cause it is not consistent on the same data set. Have just switched back to my backup of PHP 4.3.0's libphp4.so and everything is ok again. Both modules are compiled with the same configure command. './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/share/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-regex=php' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php4/apache' '--with-sybase=/usr/share/freetds' '--with-zlib' '--with-gd=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-16 00:56:55] sniper@php.net No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem. If this is not the case and you are able to provide the information that was requested earlier, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-11 16:00:01] hholzgra@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip can't reproduce this on linux (4.3.2 and head) and XP (4.3.2), guess it has been fixed somehow since 4.3.0 although i can't identify the exact change that fixed it ... and regarding the "last sunday" comment -> this is ignored due to missing information, you neither told us the date you tried this (ok, we could guess that from the date you reported) nor did you tell us the expected and actual result -> bugus for that one ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-21 13:24:27] hholzgra@php.net well, in this special case the DST fault is on the PHP side and not on the users side IMHO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-21 09:41:37] mgf@php.net We are happy to tell you that you just discovered Daylight Savings Time. For more information see: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html Instead of using mktime/date consider using gmmktime and gmdate which do not suffer from DST. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-21 08:39:09] dizit at mail dot ru <? echo 'Dates 2003-03-29 and 2003-03-30 to timestamp:<br>'.strtotime('2003-03-29').'<br>'.strtotime('2003-03-30'); echo '<br>and then back with date function:<p>'.date('Ymd',strtotime('20030329')).'<br>'.date('Ymd',strtotime('20030330')).'<-There is an error. Must be 2003-03-30'; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22814&edit=1