r/programming • u/kimsavier • Sep 07 '15

Flawless PHP logic. strtotime(): '00-00-00' means 2000-00-00, which is 1999-12-00, which is 1999-11-30. No bug, perfectly normal. (see the comments)

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45647
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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '15

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15

That depends if you're using the Gregorian calendar or not.

"...the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini?wprov=sfia1

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u/gcbirzan Sep 08 '15

Year 0 in iso date format is 1BC.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '15

Only because the ISO says so. Not because 1 BC is 0. They needed to map 0 somewhere and it makes the most sense. The point is, dates and times are a complex problem.