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ID: 53417
User updated by: trevor dot white at ge dot com
Reported by: trevor dot white at ge dot com
Summary: strtotime does not handle MySQL Fuzzy Dates
Correctly
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Redhat
PHP Version: 5.3.1RC1
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Sorry yes my mistake, I meant to put 2010-11-00 00:00:00 in my example.
Previous Comments:
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[2010-11-26 16:17:50] [email protected]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
This is how it is supposed to be. Day 0 is an underflow, so the date
gets auto corrected to 2010-09-30 (from 2010-10-00). (You seem to be
confusing 10 with November in your report btw).
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[2010-11-26 16:03:25] trevor dot white at ge dot com
Description:
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The function strtotime doesn't handle MySQL fuzzy dates correctly, in
MySQL it is possible to store fuzzy dates replacing the unknown date
figure with 00, for example.
2010-10-00 00:00:00
which is UK format Y-m-d
If you pass this script to strtotime and wrap the date function around
it:
date('M y', (strtotime($monrow['eventdate'])));
PHP will return Oct 10, which is a month out as it should return Nov
10.
Workaround is to use str_replace to change the 00 to 01 when processing.
Test script:
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date('M y', (strtotime("2010-10-00 00:00:00")));
Expected result:
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Nov 10 (Month as specified)
Actual result:
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Oct 10 (Previous Month)
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