#33013 [Csd]: strtotime - 'next month' doesn't work.

ID: 33013 Updated by: mgf@php.net Reported By: nick at netdupe dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 PHP Version: 5.0.4 Assigned To: derick New Comment: The change was due to bug report http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18655. It looks like the GNU spec has changed, since at that time we all agreed it said "next" was equivalent to 2 -- I even quoted the relevant section in my contribution to the discussion. It's more intuitive if "next" is equivalent to 1, so I guess it would be reasonable to change back, just as long as the various changes are sufficiently documented! ;) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-13 03:01:39] rasmus@php.net I made this change a while back, but I don't recall the reasoning now. The GNU page on this clearly states that next=1 http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_7.html Derick, do you remember what the logic for this was? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-13 01:24:42] nick at netdupe dot com Well I guess this should be a feature change report, because anyone with some common sense would conclude that "next month" would mean June, not July. Do you go saying "I am going to be going on holiday first month" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-12 22:40:01] derick@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php first means +1 next means +2 second means +2 ... so either use "first month" or "+1 month". No bug here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-12 07:53:29] nick at netdupe dot com Description: ------------ This bug is fairly self explanatory. But for those who need things to be explained, basically if you enter "next month" into strtotime you would expect it to give the current time + one month, but it gives the current time + 2 months. Tried on several machines same result, seems to have the same effect in 5.0.3. I believe there are also problems with 'next week' etc etc. './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/php5' '--with-config- file-path=/usr/local/php5/lib' '--with-apxs' '--with-iconv' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-zlib=/usr' '--with-mysql=/ Users/marc/svn/entropy/php-module/src/mysql-standard-*' '-- with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config' '--with- libxml-dir=/usr/local/php5' '--with-xsl=/usr/local/php5' '-- with-pdflib=/usr/local/php5' '--with-pgsql=/Users/marc/svn/ entropy/php-module/build/postgresql-build' '--with-gd' '-- with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/php5' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/ php5' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/ local/php5' '--with-t1lib=/usr/local/php5' '--with-imap=../ imap-2002d' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-gettext=/usr/ local/php5' '--with-ming=/Users/marc/svn/entropy/php-module/ build/ming-build' '--with-ldap' '--with-mime-magic=/usr/ local/php5/etc/magic.mime' '--with-iodbc=/usr' '--with- xmlrpc' '--with-expat-dir=/usr/local/php5' '--with-iconv- dir=/usr' '--with-curl=/usr/local/php5' '--enable-exif' '-- enable-wddx' '--enable-soap' '--enable-sqlite-utf8' '-- enable-ftp' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-dbx' '--enable- dbase' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-calendar' '--with-bz2=/ usr' '--with-mcrypt=/usr/local/php5' '--with-mhash=/usr/ local/php5' '--with-mssql=/usr/local/php5' '--with-fbsql=/ Users/marc/svn/entropy/php-module/build/frontbase-build/ Library/FrontBase' '--enable-openbase_module' Reproduce code: --------------- <?php echo date('F j, Y, g:i a'); echo date('F j, Y, g:i a', strtotime('next month')); ?> Expected result: ---------------- May 12, 2005, 5:42 pm June 12, 2005, 5:42 pm Obviously the dates will be different when you do this. Actual result: -------------- May 12, 2005, 5:42 pm July 12, 2005, 5:42 pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33013&edit=1