#32653 [NEW]: Outdated reference about Date and Time

From: michel dot merlin at laposte dot net Operating system: WXPSP2 FR PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Outdated reference about Date and Time Description: ------------ Outdated reference about Date and Time ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Posted on http://bugs.php.net/report.php On the registering page of a newly created forum ( http://quatuorebene.com/phpBB/profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true , bottom), I am referred to « la fonction date() du PHP » ( http://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.date.php ). {That forum has chosen an outdated version of PHBB (« Powered by phpBB 2.0.11 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group »), but the pages it refers to are yours, are outdated, while they don't look as outdated, hence they can lead people into errors, hence they should be marked "outdated, please refer to ...", hence I *have to* report this as a bug (as an old software producer I know that so many bugs just come from such discrepancies in documentation). So may I insist that your reporting sytem should NEVER require ANYTHING before reporting. Here, by requiring an updated PHP version, you just cause me to make a false report (I chose "5.0.4"), and to bloat my report with this particular parenthese about reporting. If you really know people, if you are really educated, instructed and experienced enough, you do know that people never are the idiots that idioters think, and that hampering feedback is a sure recipe to badly hurt a company or organism. After having built a better Time System in our large UNIX network and got not a single problem in 12 years with everyday ~50 consurrent users, I had more important suggestions but won't suffer again all this stupid and condescendent barrage against feedback.} On that last page, in the table, line "r", reference is made to the outdated "RFC 822"; fortunately the link itself has been updated to RFC2822, but you could still improve that link by choosing « 3.3 Date and Time Specification » ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2822.html#sec-3.3 ): that page has anchors, and anchors that do work (many, as yours, have no anchors, and some have illegal and often-non-working anchors, such as « http://rfc.net/rfc2822.html#s3.3. », with an illegal ending dot). Paris, Sun 10 Apr 2005 09:29:30 +0200 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32653&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32653&r=mysqlcfg