note 47154 added to function.strtotime

Here's a big "gotcha" that bit me today, in migrating to PHP5. There's a major change (bug?) in PHP 5.0.0 - 5.0.2 with strtotime(). In php 4.x: date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("+1 hour")); returns something like: 2004-11-04 13:33:23 In php 5.0.x: date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("+1 hour")); returns: 2004-11-04 01:00:00 This is because strtotime("now") is now '2004-11-04 00:00:00' instead of the current datetime. This made a lot of my PHP4 code suddenly not work. It seems that strtotime() now completely ignores the hours/minutes/seconds portion of the timestamp if you pass one in, also. For example strtotime("+5 hours", 1099593750) is exactly the same as strtotime("+5 hours", 1099551600)! My workaround was to prepend the current date/time in front of all my "+x yyyy" strtotime() calls. So: $xtime = strtotime("+5 hours"); becomes: $now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); $xtime = strtotime("$now +5 hours"); ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+47154 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes Reason: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes&reason=bad+code Reason: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes&reason=spam Reason: useless example -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes&reason=useless+example Reason: contains commercial links -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes&reason=contains+commercial+links Reason: useless note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47154&report=yes&reason=useless+note Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+47154&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php