From: tj at systisoft dot com
Operating system: Mac OS X
PHP version: 5.3CVS-2008-07-14 (CVS)
PHP Bug Type: Date/time related
Bug description: create_date_from_format cannot parse negative (BC) dates
Description:
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While the constructor of DateTime can handle negaive dates (BC dates),
create_date_from_format cannot.
Reproduce code:
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$d = new DateTime("-4000-01-31"); echo $d->format("Y-m-d"), PHP_EOL;
$d = date_create_from_format("Y-m-d", "4000-01-31"); echo
$d->format("Y-m-d"), PHP_EOL;
$d = date_create_from_format("Y-m-d", "-4000-01-31"); echo
$d->format("Y-m-d"), PHP_EOL;
Expected result:
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-4000-01-31
4000-01-31
-4000-01-31
Actual result:
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-4000-01-31
4000-01-31
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object in
Command line code on line 3
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