I wanted to remove the time from a date/time string. The time is always “T00:00:00” so I use “rtrim” to strip that section from the string.

However, if the last digit in the Date is a “0”, it removes that zero too.

Is this a bug?

For an example please go to php playground php-play.dev and enter the following code…

<?php
 $date = "2024-07-10T00:00:00";
 $date_minus_time = rtrim($date, "T00:00:00");

 print $date;               //"2024-07-10T00:00:00"
 print "<br>";
 print $date_minus_time;    //expected "2024-07-10" but got "2024-07-1"