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

ID: 33013 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported By: nick at netdupe dot com Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 PHP Version: 5.0.4 New Comment: I don't think not having a "second" means that "next" should take its place when it doesn't match the common usage of the word. The whole point of having these terms at all is to make it easier to use. If we are going to go to the trouble of making "next month" work, then it should work the way people expect. Otherwise we should get rid of these terms completely and just go with the more explicit "+1 month" syntax instead. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-19 21:04:12] derick@php.net Actually, the new parser that I wrote can handle this just fine... so, shall we make next 2 or 1 (in PHP 5.1)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-19 21:01:04] derick@php.net I also know the rationale - without "next" linking to 2, there would be no way to represent "2" as "second" already means something else (the time unit). So I think we should not change it back to "1". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-16 13:45:56] mgf@php.net 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! ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/33013 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33013&edit=1