#29342 [Com]: strtotime(null) does not return -1

ID: 29342 Comment by: kevin at brucecreative dot com Reported By: php dot net at gurugeek dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: RHEL 3.0 PHP Version: 5.0.0 New Comment: Is there a bug with strtotime in 5.0.1? strtotime("+11 minutes") doesn't work, when it worked fine in 4.x Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-28 03:45:02] iliaa@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-22 23:09:57] php dot net at gurugeek dot com Description: ------------ Executing strtotime(null) returns midnight of the current day. The same happens with strtotime(false). [jrod@nagios01 libexec]$ php -r 'echo strtotime(null) . "\n";' 1090479600 [jrod@nagios01 libexec]$ php -r 'echo date("r", strtotime(null)) . "\n";' Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700 Reproduce code: --------------- echo strtotime(null); echo strtotime(""); Expected result: ---------------- -1 Actual result: -------------- Midnight of the current day: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29342&edit=1