#34874 [Bgs->Opn]: strtotime("<Day>",<time>) output differs from earlier PHP5 versions

ID: 34874 User updated by: dverspui at hotpop dot com Reported By: dverspui at hotpop dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Linux (Fedora 2) PHP Version: 5.1.0RC1 Assigned To: derick New Comment: Hi Derick, I would agree if it would include "next" like in: print date("Ymd","next " . strtotime(date("l",time()),time())); I think people in many projects have been using my earlier example with all PHP versions prior to 5.1.0 and this breaks their code. E.g. I bumped into this when using PHP iCalender. After all, I cannot seem to find any exact specs on what strtotime should return for my example. The manual nowhere tells me that it will e.g. return next weeks tuesday if the specified time is on a tuesday. It will definitely returns a tuesday, but which one then?? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-18 13:54:25] 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 This was a bug in all earlier version. If today is "Tuesday October 18th" then the string "Tuesday" refers to the next one, which is October 25th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-15 00:19:05] tony2001@php.net Looks like a feature, but I'm not sure. Please have a look. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-15 00:09:27] dverspui at hotpop dot com Hi, thanks for your reply. I succesfully compiled 5.1.0RC3-dev you gave me the link to, but the problem remains! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-14 21:40:23] tony2001@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-10-14 17:36:00] dverspui at hotpop dot com Description: ------------ strtotime("<day>",<time>) returns the specified day of the next week of <time> if <time> itself is on day <day>. Reproduce code: --------------- print date("Ymd",strtotime(date("l",time()),time())); Expected result: ---------------- Output should be the date of today, but on my installation it returns the date of 7 days ahead. This differs from all earlier PHP versions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=34874&edit=1