Re: Re: Logical reason for strtotime('east') and strtotime('west') returning valid results?

From:	Kevin Kinsey	Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:21:15 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Logical reason for strtotime('east') and strtotime('west') returning valid results?
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Colin Guthrie wrote:

'Twas brillig, and Kevin Kinsey at 05/04/10 19:15 did gyre and gimble:
Nonetheless, I'm suspecting the programmers had something like this in mind.
Yeah I guess that's why it interprets these terms. Good thinking :)
Isn't strtotime() based on some GNU utility?
Yeah, that's why I said "the relevant authorities". I couldn't remember off-hand where it came from so figured I'd not blame "PHP" just yet :p

Apparently these strings are being recognized as TZ stamps, but the underlying logic is "not fully implemented": see http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Low_002dLevel-Time-String-Parsing.html Try it with some TZ stamps ... I'm pretty sure that in the previous example it was taking "East" to be "EST", as I observed (rather by accident) earlier. Kevin Kinsey