ID: 33511
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: dfdugal at spyderhost dot net
-Status: Open
+Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: Linux
PHP Version: 5.0.4
New Comment:
Did you test it with PHP 5.1.0dev? It works just fine here:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dat/dev/php/php-5.1dev$ sapi/cli/php
<?php
$timestamp = time();
$strtime = strtotime('@'.$timestamp);
echo $strtime;
if($timestamp == $strtime){
echo 'strtotime accepts a timestamp';
}
?>
1120115382strtotime accepts a timestamp
And we won't add new features to PHP 4.x.
Previous Comments:
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[2005-06-30 01:50:17] dfdugal at spyderhost dot net
Description:
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Found existing "Won't Fix" bug report for version 4.3.9:
#30545 strototime() returns -1 on @timestamp
Would like to petition that this gets another look in 5.x.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked...
"What's the point of doing this in the first place?"
I can think of a couple;
1) To support the specification as documented and published.
2) It's a time-consuming "gotcha" when you run into it, especially
since the docs state different behavior.
3) in an OO API, I may not know how the date is coming in, but want to
support the widest variety of possible values.
4) One could then use strtotime() to validate a timestamp?
The third issue is the one that got me. I wrote a Date Object (that
used and wrappered many of php's date functions) that I could use in an
OO framework. The constructor accepts a timestamp or any valid
strtotime() input as a constructor arguement.
This allows me to do something like the following to create
copies/clones, without "loosing time"
$d1 = new Date();
$d2 = new Date($d1->getTimestamp());
My initial code passed the input to strtotime() and threw an Exception
if there was a problem. For the current code, I wrote a workaround, but
agree with the previous post that this is a legitimate bug, primarily
because it diverges from stated/documented behavior.
Reproduce code:
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$timestamp = time();
$strtime = strtotime('@'.$timestamp);
echo $strtime;
if($timestamp == $strtime){
echo 'strtotime accepts a timestamp';
}
Expected result:
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{a legitimate timestamp}
strtotime accepts a timestamp
Actual result:
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-1 (or FALSE using 5.1.x)
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