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Author #39818 [NEW]: "any English textual datetime description" is ambigious
ian at ithomas dot name

2006-12-13, 4:11 pm

From: ian at ithomas dot name
Operating system: All
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: "any English textual datetime description" is ambigious

Description:
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The one line summary of strtotime is "Parse about any English textual
datetime description into a Unix timestamp".

This should be clarified to "Parse about any US English textual datetime
description into a Unix timestamp" (addition of US).


If you're American and reading this, please don't think it is not
important just because it works fine for you. Imagine if it worked the
other way round, and strtotime('2/4/2006') output 2nd April, and your IDE
was telling you that this function parsed English dates (meaning dates
used in England)


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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39818&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39818&r=mysqlcfg
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