Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50055&edit=1

 ID:               50055
 Updated by:       [email protected]
 Reported by:      jennifer dot kimball at nrc dot ca
 Summary:          indeterminant DateInterval does not subtract correctly
 Status:           Closed
 Type:             Bug
 Package:          Date/time related
 Operating System: Solaris 10
 PHP Version:      5.3.0
 Assigned To:      derick

 New Comment:

Derick had a small typo in his commit, here's the commit:



Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=295924


Previous Comments:
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[2010-03-07 14:55:13] [email protected]

This bug has been fixed in SVN.

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

Fixed by making this throw a warning, as it's not supported to use
"special" relative time strings with ->sub().

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[2009-11-02 16:01:31] [email protected]

There is a bug here, but the only thing would be that "sub" can *not* be
used with relative time strings such as "last ... of". It is logically
too complicated (for people) to easily reverse strings like that. Such
an attempt should throw an exception/error instead though.

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[2009-11-02 15:07:18] jennifer dot kimball at nrc dot ca

Description:
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The logical behaviour of a DateInterval created with the "next" keyword,
when subtracted from a DateTime, should be to use "last" instead of
"next" in the calculation (and vice versa).



Instead, it appears that DateIntervals created with "next" or "last"
keywords cannot be subtracted from DateTimes with any accuracy. A
DateTime results from the operation but has an unexpected value.

Reproduce code:
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//positive DateInterval

$da1=date_create();

$ds1=date_create();

$i=DateInterval::createFromDateString('third Tuesday of next month');

echo $da1->format('Y-m-d');

echo date_add($da1,$i)->format('Y-m-d');//works

echo date_sub($ds1,$i)->format('Y-m-d');//fails with weird date



//negative DateInterval

$da2=date_create();

$ds2=date_create();

$i2=DateInterval::createFromDateString('third Tuesday of last month');

echo $da2->format('Y-m-d');

echo date_add($da2,$i2)->format('Y-m-d');//works

echo date_sub($ds2,$i2)->format('Y-m-d');//fails with weird date

Expected result:
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2009-11-02 //today

2009-12-15 //third Tuesday of December

2009-10-20 //third Tuesday of October



2009-11-02 //today

2009-10-20 //third Tuesday of October

2009-12-15 //third Tuesday of December

Actual result:
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2009-11-02 //today

2009-12-15 //third Tuesday of December

2009-09-18 //third Friday of September



2009-11-02 //today

2009-10-20 //third Tuesday of October

2009-11-18 //third Wednesday of November


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