Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65412&edit=1
ID: 65412
Comment by: mail+php at requinix dot net
Reported by: laurisnet at inbox dot lv
Summary: strtotime('2013-07-31 -1 month') return wrong result
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit
PHP Version: 5.4Git-2013-08-07 (Git)
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
"-1 month" is literally subtracting one month from the date. 2013-07-31 becomes
2013-06-31 which overflows to 2013-07-01. Likewise "2013-03-31 -1 month"
becomes
2013-03-03.
If you want the last day of the previous month then the method I know (using
only strtotime) is going to the beginning of the month, subtracting a month,
and
going to the last day:
strtotime("2013-07-31, first day of, -1 month, last day of")
Keep an eye on http://php.net/datetime.formats.relative
But it's much easier with mktime(0, 0, 0, month, 0, year).
Previous Comments:
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[2013-08-07 20:09:36] ras...@php.net
This is not a bug. This is standard behaviour for date arithmetic when the
target
date is impossible. There is an explanation from the GNU tools here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/Date-input-
formats.html#SEC125
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[2013-08-07 09:19:10] laurisnet at inbox dot lv
Description:
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Function strtotime() return wrong value for 2013-07-31 date with parameters:
A) -1 month
B) last month
Test script:
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<?
// This returns: 2013-07-01
// But expected was: 2013-06-30
echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('2013-07-31 -1 month'));
?>
Expected result:
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2013-06-30
Actual result:
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2013-07-01
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