ID:               33013
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      nick at netdupe dot com
 Status:           Wont fix
 Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4
 PHP Version:      5.0.4
 New Comment:

I don't think not having a "second" means that "next" should take its
place when it doesn't match the common usage of the word.  The whole
point of having these terms at all is to make it easier to use.  If we
are going to go to the trouble of making "next month" work, then it
should work the way people expect.  Otherwise we should get rid of
these terms completely and just go with the more explicit "+1 month"
syntax instead.


Previous Comments:
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[2005-05-19 21:04:12] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Actually, the new parser that I wrote can handle this just fine... so,
shall we make next 2 or 1 (in PHP 5.1)?

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[2005-05-19 21:01:04] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I also know the rationale - without "next" linking to 2, there would be
no way to represent "2" as "second" already means something else (the
time unit). So I think we should not change it back to "1".

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[2005-05-16 13:45:56] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The change was due to bug report http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18655.

It looks like the GNU spec has changed, since at that time we all
agreed it said "next" was equivalent to 2 -- I even quoted the relevant
section in my contribution to the discussion.  It's more intuitive if
"next" is equivalent to 1, so I guess it would be reasonable to change
back, just as long as the various changes are sufficiently documented!
;)

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[2005-05-13 03:01:39] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I made this change a while back, but I don't recall the reasoning now. 
The GNU page on this clearly states that next=1

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_7.html

Derick, do you remember what the logic for this was?

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[2005-05-13 01:24:42] nick at netdupe dot com

Well I guess this should be a feature change report, because 
anyone with some common sense would conclude that "next month" 
would mean June, not July. Do you go saying "I am going to be 
going on holiday first month"

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