note 92098 added to function.strtotime
| From: | RenaKunisaki at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:35:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 92098 added to function.strtotime | ||
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strtotime() seems to have trouble dealing with large numbers of seconds. <?php
echo number_format(strtotime('1000000 seconds') - time())
//outputs 1,000,000
echo number_format(strtotime('10000000 seconds') - time())
//outputs 10,003,600
echo number_format(strtotime('100000000 seconds') - time())
//outputs 100,000,000
echo number_format(strtotime('1000000000 seconds') - time())
//outputs -1,247,084,637 ?>
In the second case an extra hour is added out of nowhere. The last case seems unexpected, however 1
billion seconds from now is past Unix timestamp 2,147,483,647, so the calculation overflows. On a
64-bit system I believe this would work correctly.
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