Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22486&edit=1
ID: 22486
Comment by: ricardo dot abc at gmail dot com
Reported by: drwav at hotpop dot com
Summary: strtotime +1/-1 Month bug
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: Date/time related
Operating System: Irrelevant
PHP Version: 4.2.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
To everyone coming here trying to solve this error:
A possible fix, in some cases, is "force" a date:
<?php
/*
Scenario: I want year and month, today is 29/01. If I add one month, it will
display as March not February. So I force to add by the first day of the month.
date('Y-m', strtotime('+' . $i . ' months', strtotime(date('Y-m-01'))));
?>
Previous Comments:
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[2009-07-03 10:07:10] [email protected]
I agree that this is an annoying behaviour.
Also, the implementation is problematic. Basically if you use '+1 month' it
takes the month number, adds 1 and parses result as a new date.
If you use '+1 month' on the first of the month, it sets the date to the next
first of the month.
This behaviour gives the impression, that php considers the length of a month,
which is not true.
But if you use '+1 month' on the last day of a month, the result is unexpected
as 2009-05-31 becomes 2009-06-31 which is an invalid date and then interpreted
as 2009-07-01.
This should at least be mentioned in the documentation.
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[2004-08-31 17:25:57] kotala at ingema dot net
I have to agree tuxedobob at mac dot com and I would like you to think about
that once more:
- if I want something 31 day in the future, I would use '+31 days'
- now I was filling new bug report, because my web worked good in 2 months
testing period - and now, as stable system, just DO NOT WORK for one day - and
all because we didn't came to idea of nonstandard behaviour in 31st
If you decide not to correct this, than please write it in big red letters in
documentation at least, because this is nearly undebuggable!
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[2003-03-01 09:32:58] [email protected]
Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. A month is a period of time just like a
second, a minute and an hour. It is not as well-defined since it varies from
one month to the next, but on the average it is 30.5 days. Without further
context, if you simply say that something will take a month or you use "a
month" without specifying which month, the only correct assumption to make is
that it is a period of time approximately 30.5 days.
This is exactly the same problem you have if you simply add a month to the
mktime() month argument without changing the day. If you tell mktime to give
you the unix timestamp for Feb. 30, it is going to give you the timestamp for
March 2. If what you really want is the timestamp for the 1st day of the next
month, simply get the current month and add 1 to it and feed it the day in the
next month you want in your mktime call. eg.
$t = mktime(12,0,0,date('n')+1,10,date('Y'));
That will give you the timestame for noon on the 10th day of the next month in
the current year.
Any change to what a month is in the current strtotime() code is going to break
a lot of applications as most people want and expect the current behaviour.
And relax, I was just kidding with the example. I won't actually show up and
beat the crap out of you in a month.
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[2003-03-01 02:12:16] tuxedobob at mac dot com
Yes, it would be more correct. The month after January is Feburary. It follows
that adding a month to a day in January should get you a day in February.
Likewise, adding a month to March 31 currently gets you May 1st, but should
result in April 30.
strtotime clearly isn't simply tacking on some number of days, since a month
after 1/1 is 2/1 and 2/1 + 1 month is 3/1. It can even handle leap years
correctly. It should really do a bit more thinking with regards to this.
As for your example, either you're just being a prick, or you've been watching
a little too much Pirates of Penzance.
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[2003-02-28 23:38:30] [email protected]
But would choosing Feb.28 really be any more correct? If I told you on January
30 that I would come back in exactly one month to beat the crap out of you,
when would you think I would show up?
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