Doc #65747 [Com]: DateTime __construct error

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65747&edit=1 ID: 65747 Comment by: vascowhite at gmail dot com Reported by: mwiseman at dogandtuba dot com Summary: DateTime __construct error Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Date/time related Operating System: Windows PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Is the bug in the constructor of DateTimeZone then? This does not recognize the single letter timezones. $tz = new \DateTimeZone('z'); Will raise an exception. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-30 03:09:56] gabri dot ns at gmail dot com IMO, the one that should be fixed is strtotime documentation, since this behaviour came from thus function. As doumentation say, the first argument should be time string, that -i think- will be parsed by strtotime function. Test script: --------------- echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('now'))."\n"; echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('a'))."\n"; Actual result: -------------- 2013-09-30 10:07:18 2013-09-30 16:07:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-29 22:43:05] requinix@php.net Expected but undocumented behavior. Single characters correspond to military timezones. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones foreach (range("a", "z") as $l) { if ($l == "j") continue; printf("%s = %s\n", $l, (new DateTime($l))->format("r")); } So the list of timezones documentation should be updated to mention these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-29 15:56:59] vascowhite at gmail dot com Related To: Bug #65787 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-23 23:44:15] mwiseman at dogandtuba dot com Description: ------------ Constructing a DateTime object with a string argument of 1 character creates a DateTime object set to now, instead of throwing an exception. If the string contains two characters (e.g. DateTime('aa')) an exception is thrown. Test script: --------------- <?php date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); $d = new DateTime('x'); echo $d->format('y-m-d'); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Throw an exception Actual result: -------------- Valid DateTime object set to now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65747&edit=1