My colleague and I are obtaining different results from some unit tests that use strtotime.
The discrepancy originates in this line:
$value = strtotime('2050-05-01T20:10:29.410Z');
on my machine, this result returns the following:
int(2535048629)
whereas my colleague's version returns false
We are both using PHP version 5.4.14 and PHPUnit 3.724.
Has anyone got any idea what is causing this discrepancy, and is there a more robust approach?
This is because he is on 32-bit and you are on 64-bit machine. See what echo PHP_INT_MAX; returns on both machines. More read here.
If you wish to get timestamp on 32-bit machine, you can use DateTime as:
$value = new DateTime('2050-05-01T20:10:29.410Z');
echo $value->format('U'); // returns 2535048629 as string
or format inputed timestamp as:
$value = new DateTime('@2535048629');
echo $value->format('r'); // Sun, 01 May 2050 20:10:29 +0000
instead of date('r', '2535048629'); which will not work on 32-bit machine.
It's likely related to 32-bit vs 64-bit. Timestamps in the year 2050 are larger than 32 bits.
