#35983 [Bgs]: strtotime(string, now) behavior has changed

ID: 35983 User updated by: tim at komta dot com Reported By: tim at komta dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Date/time related Operating System: Windows XP Pro, Server 2003 PHP Version: 5.1.2 Assigned To: derick New Comment: That's quite unfortunate that this is the newly intended behavior, both in the inadequate documentation and the actual breaking from prior behavior. For such a major change, I really feel that the documentation of the function should have been updated to reflect this. I rely (relied, I guess) on this to work for expanding to ranges...when my users search for "yesterday" they really meant "yesterday 00:00:00 through yesterday 23:59:59" which was easily handled by using different relative points in the day. This new behavior completely breaks my search engine, and as of now, I don't see any way to fix this, short of having my users type in a more explicit date range they want. I'm not sure that I see the inconsistancy. "yesterday", relative to a timestamp, should return a timestamp that's 24 hours less than the timestamp given. I see it as far more inconsistant that it could be anywhere from 24 hours less to 47:59:59 less. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-13 12:01:50] derick@php.net This is proper behavior. In the past PHP has been inconsistent regarding different terms like this. With the new code in PHP 5.1 this all works the same. What you want to do is by using: "-1 day" or "1 day ago". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-13 09:15:00] sniper@php.net Assigned to the date man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-12 19:51:13] tim at komta dot com Description: ------------ Prior to PHP 5.1.2 (potentially earlier, just only noticed it) strtotime(), when used with the optional 'now' argument, would return the time using the full 'now'. Now it returns 00:00 on the date of the 'now', ignoring hours, minutes, and seconds. Reproduce code: --------------- $this_morning = strtotime('today 00:00:00'); $tonight = strtotime('today 23:59:59'); echo date('m/d Hi', strtotime('yesterday', $this_morning)).'<br/>'; echo date('m/d Hi', strtotime('yesterday', $tonight)).'<br/>'; Expected result: ---------------- (as of 2005-01-12): 01/11 0000 01/11 2359 Actual result: -------------- (as of 2005-01-12): 01/11 0000 01/11 0000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35983&edit=1