strtotime(null) does not return -1

Bug #29342	strtotime(null) does not return -1
Submitted:	2004-07-22 23:09 UTC	Modified:	2004-07-28 03:45 UTC
From:	php dot net at gurugeek dot com	Assigned:
Status:	Closed	Package:	Date/time related
PHP Version:	5.0.0	OS:	RHEL 3.0
Private report:	No	CVE-ID:	None

[2004-07-22 23:09 UTC] php dot net at gurugeek dot com

Description:
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Executing strtotime(null) returns midnight of the current day. The same happens with strtotime(false).

[jrod@nagios01 libexec]$ php -r 'echo strtotime(null) . "\n";'
1090479600
[jrod@nagios01 libexec]$ php -r 'echo date("r", strtotime(null)) . "\n";'
Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700


Reproduce code:
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echo strtotime(null);
echo strtotime("");

Expected result:
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-1

Actual result:
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Midnight of the current day:
Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700

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[2004-07-28 03:45 UTC] iliaa@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

[2004-08-24 21:22 UTC] kevin at brucecreative dot com

Is there a bug with strtotime in 5.0.1? strtotime("+11 
minutes") doesn't work, when it worked fine in 4.x

[2004-09-13 20:55 UTC] jonathant at digbang dot com

error report:
Now (php 5.0.1) when you send null as a parameter to strtotime() it returns an error instead of -1

[2004-10-12 18:20 UTC] marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk

I'm running PHP5.0.2, and I'm seeing a very similar bug:

<?php
print date('r', strtotime('now'))."\n";
print date('r', strtotime('now +1 hour'))."\n";
print date('r', strtotime('+1 hour', time()))."\n";
?>

under PHP 4.3.9 this gives:

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:16:04 +0100
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:16:04 +0100
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:16:04 +0100

Under PHP 5.0.2:

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0100
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:00:00 +0100
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:00:00 +0100

so the description of this bug could be expanded to:
strtotime returns times relative to midnight of current 
day instead of requested time.