Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26565&edit=1
ID: 26565
Comment by: fortizma at gmail dot com
Reported by: michaelw at darkhorse dot com
Summary: strtotime('this month') resolving to the wrong
month?
Status: Closed
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2.x
PHP Version: 4.3.4
Assigned To: derick
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Ok Rasmus thanks for your reply.
However in my opinion is not a correct behavioural. So if I ask today
march, 30
for the "last month" the function should return feb 28. The function
should not
assumes that I meant 2 days after Feb.28, when I'm just passing as param
lastmonth.
Anyways, in my opinión the function is not working properly, because if
I'm
asking about lastmonth the answer should not be the current month.
how you can create a function working properly, that return the correct
last
month every day in PHP 5.2.x.
Previous Comments:
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[2011-03-30 22:39:23] ras...@php.net
To the people adding comments about +-1 month here. This really isn't a
bug. Read the link Derick provided:
http://derickrethans.nl/obtaining-the-next-month-in-php.html
It doesn't matter if you are going ahead 1 month or back 1 month. The
logic is the same. It tries to find Feb.30 which doesn't exist, so
instead of walking backwards to Feb.28 it assumes you meant 2 days after
Feb.28 which is obviously in March. Like I said in the comments at that
link, for better or worse, this is the UNIX convention for time
manipulation. Most UNIX tools will behave exactly like this. In order to
do this correctly, you should be specifying a day in the month as Derick
suggests in that post.
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[2011-03-30 22:01:12] rbredlau at broadlux dot com
I am having the exact same error as fortizma.
<?php
$runtm = time();
$month = strtotime( '-1 month', $runtm );
$ts = date( 'n/j/Y g:i a', $runtm );
$ts2 = date( 'n/j/Y g:i a', $month );
$last = date( 'Y-m-F', $month );
echo $ts . PHP_EOL . $ts2 . PHP_EOL . $last . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
Produces:
3/30/2011 12:56 pm
3/2/2011 12:56 pm
2011-03-March
PHP 5.2.14-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Jul 25 2010
08:53:19)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with NuSphere PhpExpress v2.0.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2009 NuSphere
Corp., by Dmitri Dmitrienko
with DBG v3.9.2, (C) 2000,2010, by Dmitri Dmitrienko
cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l
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[2011-03-30 20:28:48] fortizma at gmail dot com
Derik, thanks for your reply, but in my last reply, I'm talking about
last month,
no next month.
Thanks in advance.
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[2011-03-30 19:48:40] der...@php.net
http://derickrethans.nl/obtaining-the-next-month-in-php.html
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[2011-03-30 19:45:35] fortizma at gmail dot com
Based on the current date which is march 30, 2011.
if I try echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 months')); I would expect
2011-02-28,
but what I'm getting is 2011-03-02.
Do this occur due to 2011 is not a leap year?
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