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Request #34676 missing support for strtotime("midnight") and strtotime("noon")
Submitted: 2005-09-29 06:20 UTC Modified: 2005-10-08 16:31 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: rajiv at alum dot mit dot edu Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5CVS, 4CVS (2005-09-29) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2005-09-29 06:20 UTC] rajiv at alum dot mit dot edu
Description:
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strtotime() should be able to parse "midnight" and "noon".


Reproduce code:
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echo strtotime("midnight");
echo strtotime("noon");


Expected result:
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echo strtotime("midnight");
  should print the time stamp for the next midnight
  (midnight tomorrow).

echo strtotime("noon");
  should print the time stamp for the next noon
  (noon today/tomorrow depending on the current time).

echo strtotime("12:00 am");
echo strtotime("12 am");
echo strtotime("12:00 pm");
echo strtotime("12 pm");
  all do the correct things.


Actual result:
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echo strtotime("midnight");
  returns -1.

echo strtotime("noon");
  returns -1.

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 [2005-09-29 09:11 UTC] [email protected]
Reclassified as feature request and assigned to Derick so he can add in PHP 5.1.x. :)
 [2005-10-08 15:45 UTC] [email protected]
I can implement this, but I do not agree that "noon" should go to the next day if it's already in the afternoon here. IMO that doesn't make any sense. Also, I'm not totally sure why "noon" and "midnight" are better than "00:00" and "12:00"...
 [2005-10-08 16:31 UTC] [email protected]
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.


 [2005-10-08 16:31 UTC] [email protected]
(Only for PHP 5.1 and higher btw)
 
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