ID: 22486
Comment by: tuxedobob at mac dot com
Reported By: drwav at hotpop dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: Win32
PHP Version: 4.2.3
New Comment:
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.
Previous Comments:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[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?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2003-02-28 23:34:53] drwav at hotpop dot com
when strtotime is asked to create a timestaml +1 month in the future,
and is given a timestamp that happens on a day that does not exist in
the next month. A timestamp a few days beyond one month in the future
is created.
Example:
<?php
$now = strtotime("2003-01-30");
$nextmonth = strtotime("+1 month", $now);
print date("Y-m-d", $nextmonth);
?>
the output from this script is
2003-03-02
since February has no 30th day, apparently strtotime just adds 30 days
to whatever timestamp it is given to go one month in the future, hence
March 2nd.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22486&edit=1
