ID: 43452
Comment by: billyt at claritytech dot com
Reported By: sean dot thorne at gmail dot com
Status: Open
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.11
PHP Version: 5.2CVS-2007-11-29 (CVS)
New Comment:
We also wrote our own function that handles it. Although, it's purely
by random chance that we discovered the problem. It's not something we
would specifically have tested for. I wonder how many other people are
using it in production with no idea that it's a problem.
Previous Comments:
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[2008-03-30 22:39:34] sean dot thorne at gmail dot com
I ended up writing a compensator for the problem, because it appears
that the PHP Dev crew has better things to do then clean up the code
base...
I kept it simple and grabbed what day was the the first of the month
and then found where Thursday would be in comparison and knew the third
thursday was just 3 times whatever the date of the first thursday.
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[2008-03-30 22:21:21] billyt at claritytech dot com
This is still a problem with 5.2.6RC4-dev!!!
This is causing us serious issues ... any ideas???
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[2007-11-29 15:39:52] sean dot thorne at gmail dot com
Description:
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When asking strtotime for the 3rd thursday in a month and the first day
of that month is thursday, it ignores the first thursday. It then begins
to count after that first Thursday and returns the fourth Thursday.
Reproduce code:
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$day = strtotime("3 Thursday Nov 2007");
echo date("m-d-Y", $day);
Expected result:
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11-15-2007
Actual result:
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11-22-2007
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