PHP 4.0 Bug #8694: Date function core dumps with escaped chars

From: dirk@rackspace.com Operating system: Red Hat 6.2 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Date/time related Bug description: Date function core dumps with escaped chars <? $stamp=time(); print(date("m d \o\f \t\h\e \w\e\e\k M F Y")); ?> put the above code snippet in a file called test.php - run the php cgi from the command line php -q test.php And it will core remove the \o\f \t\h\e \w\e\e\k and it works fine This used to work before 4.0.4 -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8694&edit=1