When I pass '7.12.60' to strtotime, it returns timestamp of today! I know strtotime guesses the format of the given string but here the value is not correct at all! it just returns today's timestamp:

echo date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime('7.12.60') ); // outputs 2022-01-05!

What i expect is to receive a false or a correct value and not a made up one

CodePudding user response：

As mentioned in comments of @aynber and others. It was considering it as a time and not a date, I added a time (00:00:00) to the end of the string and now it is returning false.

Thank you very much for your help

CodePudding user response：

The spelling of your date is not clear. What should '7.12.60' represent? 2060/12/07 or 1960/12/07 or 1860/12/07? You have to deliver the year number in 4 digits so that strtotime recognizes it correctly.

date_create_from_format() does not offer a solution here either, because for 'y', the two-digit representation of a year, it is assumed that it lies in the range from 1970 up to and including 2069.

If you need a different interval for the interpretation of two-digit year numbers, you have to redefine this and modify the input accordingly.