Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65189&edit=1
ID: 65189 Updated by: ahar...@php.net Reported by: femi at vsinstitute dot com Summary: Result from DateInterval->Format Should be Equivalent to Total Diff Value -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Class/Object related +Package: Date/time related Operating System: ubuntu3.5 PHP Version: 5.3Git-2013-07-03 (Git) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Duplicate of request #50075. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-03 03:58:27] femi at vsinstitute dot com Description: ------------ --- >From manual page: http://www.php.net/dateinterval.format#refsect1- dateinterval.format-description --- Code: echo date_diff(date_create('1970-00-00 00:00:00'), date_create())->format('%s'); Expected Output: - A big number (at least 1372823738) Current Output: - A number less than 60 The value of the output should add up to the smaller date in date diff to produce the larger date. Or at least approximately. Since I am only including s in the format, the reported value for s should be exactly equal to the Unix timestamp. Test script: --------------- echo date_diff(date_create('1970-00-00 00:00:00'), date_create())->format('%s'); Expected result: ---------------- A big number (at least 1372823738) Actual result: -------------- A number less than 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65189&edit=1