strtotime result makes no sense, php bug?

Question

The following line:

echo date(\'d\', strtotime(\'First Saturday August 2015\'));

prints 08, which doesn\'t seem to make any sense

Answer 1

As stated, PHP didn't quite understand your choice of dialect. If you plan on accepting varied input from your users (not a bad idea) to express a date, I suggest doing some normalization of that user input yourself so that you can submit a predictable format to strtotime.