PHP strtotime

Replacement of buggy php function strtotime [1] [2]. It uses parse-datetime module from Gnulib.

Usage

<?php
$tommorow = strtotime2('+1 day');

Build

For example on Debian system:

apt-get install make autoconf automake autotools-dev libtool gcc bison php5-dev

./gnulib/gnulib-tool --import --libtool parse-datetime
autoreconf --install
./configure
make

sudo make install
sudo echo "extension=strtotime.so" > /etc/php5/mods-available/strtotime.ini
sudo php5enmod strtotime

References

• [1] PHP function strtotime http://php.net/strtotime
• [2] PHP bug #73138 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73138 https://3v4l.org/b6jOH
• [3] Demonstration of DateTime::add bugs https://3v4l.org/uXf8d