strtotime defaults to now even on non time string

Bug #33536 strtotime defaults to now even on non time string
Submitted: 2005-07-01 17:12 UTC Modified: 2005-07-03 23:38 UTC
From: bo at theaddedones dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2005-07-01 (dev) OS: OSX
Private report: No CVE-ID: None

 [2005-07-01 17:12 UTC] bo at theaddedones dot com

Description:
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best by example
---snip---
print strtotime("monkey") ."\n";
print date("Y-m-d", strtotime("monkey")) ."\n";
exit;
---snip---

OUTPUT
1120230396
2005-07-01
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who knew that monkey meant 'now' (it also defaults to now on  various other strings)


Reproduce code:
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<?php
print strtotime("monkey") ."\n";
print date("Y-m-d", strtotime("monkey")) ."\n";
exit;
?>

Expected result:
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i expect to see 'false'

Actual result:
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1120230396
2005-07-01

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 [2005-07-01 17:17 UTC] derick@php.net

This is already on my todo list...

 [2005-07-01 17:25 UTC] bo at theaddedones dot com

oops

sorry if i duped a bug (could not find one like it yet) 
thanks for your time

 [2005-07-03 23:38 UTC] derick@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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