Colin Guthrie wrote:

For example, I discovered that some words (or strings beginning with
those words) will return false positives:

e.g.:

[co...@jimmy Search (working)]$ php -r 'var_dump(strtotime("east"));'
int(1270514111)
[co...@jimmy Search (working)]$ php -r 'var_dump(strtotime("west"));'
int(1270488914)
[co...@jimmy Search (working)]$ php -r 'var_dump(strtotime("now"));'
int(1270488928)


The last one is valid! But the other two appear to do much the same thing...

Can anyone think of why this would be valid results before I report this
to the relevant authorities?

Time Zones?

[11] Mon 05.Apr.2010 13:05:41 [ad...@archangel][~]
php -r "echo date('r',strtotime('now'));"
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:05:47 -0500

This is correct for my timezone (US Central Daylight Time).

[12] Mon 05.Apr.2010 13:05:47 [ad...@archangel][~]
php -r "echo date('r',strtotime('east'));"
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:05:51 -0500

This is correct for the time zone east of me, US Eastern Daylight Time.
However, the TZ offset is wrong for that TZ, it's still mine.

[13] Mon 05.Apr.2010 13:05:51
[kad...@archangel][~]
php -r "echo date('r',strtotime('west'));"
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:05:59 -0500

This is correct for American Samoa, but I've no idea why :-D

Nonetheless, I'm suspecting the programmers had something
like this in mind.  Isn't strtotime() based on some GNU utility?

Kevin Kinsey

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