Doc #66143 [NEW]: Wrong documentation on "Time Formats"

From: k dot kennypu at gmail dot com Operating system: N/A PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Wrong documentation on "Time Formats" Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/datetime.formats.time --- Wrong documentation for displaying AM/PM. In Documentation: "Description" : "meridian" "Examples" : "A.m, pM, am." Expected Behavior when use in use in code: "time is: 00:00 AM/PM" Actual Behavior: "time is: 00:00 00UTCMon, XX Nov XXXX 00:00:00 + 0000000..00pm11" Fix: Documentation should say "Description" : "A/a", not meridian, it does not do what it says it does. Test script: --------------- echo "time is: " . date("h:i meridian", time() ); //real code is echo "time is: " . date("h:i A", time() ); Expected result: ---------------- "time is: 00:00 AM/PM" Actual result: -------------- "time is: 00:00 00UTCMon, XX Nov XXXX 00:00:00 + 0000000..00pm11" -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66143&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66143&r=mysqlcfg