Doc #72461 [NEW]: Documentation on DatePeriod is missing mention of unbounded periods

From: pauld at sagekey dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Documentation on DatePeriod is missing mention of unbounded periods Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/class.dateperiod --- DatePeriod does not appear to support ISO 8601 date periods without an upper bound (e.g., 'R/2016-16-20T00:00:00Z/P7D') or null end dates. The ISO spec itself supports this, so a note should be made in the documentation that DatePeriod does not. Test script: --------------- // This throws an exception with message 'DatePeriod::__construct(): Unknown or bad format (R/2016-06-20T00:00:00Z/P7D)' $dp1 = new DatePeriod('R/2016-06-20T00:00:00Z/P7D'); // This silently accepts the null third argument; the resulting object has a null end date and one recurrence. $dp = new DatePeriod(new DateTime('2016-06-20'), new DateInterval('P7D'), null); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72461&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72461&r=mysqlcfg