From: chkp45 at hotmail dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 4.3.4
PHP Bug Type: Date/time related
Bug description: strtotime returns -1 randomly
Description:
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I read data from mssql server and get dates as "Feb 02 2004 12:00AM". I
read several dates in a loop, and for some dates strtotime returns -1
occasionally, seemingly at random. When I refresh, the wrong result
changes to another date.
$d1 = strtotime($v["date"]);
printf("%s %s<br>", $v["date"], $d1);
run 1:
Feb 02 2004 12:00AM 1075672800
Feb 03 2004 12:00AM -1
Feb 04 2004 12:00AM 1075845600
Feb 05 2004 12:00AM 1075932000
Feb 06 2004 12:00AM 1076018400
Feb 09 2004 12:00AM 1076277600
Feb 10 2004 12:00AM -1
run2:
Feb 02 2004 12:00AM -1
Feb 03 2004 12:00AM 1075759200
Feb 04 2004 12:00AM 1075845600
Feb 05 2004 12:00AM 1075932000
Feb 06 2004 12:00AM 1076018400
Feb 09 2004 12:00AM 1076277600
Feb 10 2004 12:00AM 1076364000
run3:
May 05 2003 12:00AM 1052082000
May 06 2003 12:00AM -1
May 07 2003 12:00AM 1052254800
May 08 2003 12:00AM 1052341200
May 09 2003 12:00AM 1052427600
May 12 2003 12:00AM 1052686800
May 13 2003 12:00AM 1052773200
May 14 2003 12:00AM 1052859600
May 15 2003 12:00AM 1052946000
May 16 2003 12:00AM 1053032400
May 19 2003 12:00AM 1053291600
May 20 2003 12:00AM 1053378000
May 21 2003 12:00AM 1053464400
May 21 2003 12:00AM -1
May 21 2003 12:00AM -1
May 22 2003 12:00AM 1053550800
May 23 2003 12:00AM 1053637200
May 26 2003 12:00AM 1053896400
May 27 2003 12:00AM 1053982800
May 27 2003 12:00AM 1053982800
May 27 2003 12:00AM 1053982800
May 28 2003 12:00AM 1054069200
May 28 2003 12:00AM 1054069200
May 30 2003 12:00AM 1054242000
May 30 2003 12:00AM 1054242000
This happened when I tested code in Fedora Linux 1, Apache 1.3.29 PHP
4.3.4.
Production version works ok on W2K Apache PHP 4.3.3.
On W2K date strings don't have leading zeros, eg
"Feb 2 2004 12:00AM"
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