From: hazen at edsbits dot com
Operating system: Red Hat Linux
PHP version: 4.3.3
PHP Bug Type: Date/time related
Bug description: strtotime() returns incorrect date (near daylight saving time change)
Description:
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I have code which uses human readable text to generate dates for use in a
task management program which stores due dates in a MySQL database. I
have been using the strtotime() function for some months with no problem.
Now that it is near a change in daylight savings time, I'm finding some
odd behavior.
It is currently Friday October 24, 2003.
When I enter "tuesday", the function returns 10-27-2003, not 10-28-2003 as
it should. For a sanity check, I also entered "today + 4 days" which
correctly returned 10-28-2003. If I enter "Saturday" or "Sunday", it
correctly returns 10-25-2003 and 10-26-2003 respectively.
Anything after Sunday is off by one day.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$date_in = $_POST['date_in'];
$date_out = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date_in));
PRINT<<<END
<H3>strtotime( ) tester</H3>
<PRE>
Input: $date_in
Output: $date_out
</PRE>
<FORM ACTION="datetest.phtml" METHOD="post">
<INPUT TYPE="Text" SIZE="20" NAME="date_in" VALUE="$date_in"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Test Date">
</FORM>
END;
?>
Expected result:
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That it returns the correct calendar date
Actual result:
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It returns one day off, as explained in the description above. I also
tested this bug on a second machine running PHP 4.3.2 with the same
result.
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PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25981&r=php3
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