[arshidkv12]

Related to #25150

$a = strtotime("\x00");

var_dump($a);

Current output:

int(1793627532)

Expected output:

bool(false)

strtotime() should return false when the input contains a NUL byte.

[iliaal]

This isn't specific to strtotime(). timelib's scanner skips \0 like a newline, so new DateTime("\0"), modify() and date_parse() accept it as "now" too, and "2026-11-02\0 +1 year" parses fully. A check here only makes strtotime() disagree with the rest of ext/date. The fix belongs in timelib (derickr/timelib, v2022 branch): either treat NUL like whitespace in the empty-string trim in timelib_strtotime(), or report it as an unexpected character so every entry point fails the same way.