PHP relative month not producing expected result [duplicate] - php

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So, I am working with subtracting relative months. According to the documentation:
Relative month values are calculated based on the length of months that they pass through. An example would be "+2 month 2011-11-30", which would produce "2012-01-30". This is due to November being 30 days in length, and December being 31 days in length, producing a total of 61 days.
I understand why the example when adding months, but I don't understand why 2014-12-31 -1 month produces 2014-12-01. Its 31 days in December, shouldn't the result be the last of November?
Example code. Function 1 produces the result I was expecting from function 2 and 3.
//Func 1
$date = '2014-12-31 23:59:59'; //YYYY-MM-DD
$days = 0;
echo $date.'<br>';
for ($i = 1; $i < 13; $i++) {
$days += cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, (13-$i), 2014);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("-$days days", strtotime($date))).'<br>';
}
echo "<br><br>";
//Func 2
$date = '2014-12-31 23:59:59'; //YYYY-MM-DD
echo $date.'<br>';
for ($i = 1; $i < 13; $i++) {
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("-$i months", strtotime($date))).'<br>';
}
//Func 3
echo "<br><br>";
$dateObj = new DateTime("2014-12-31 23:59:59");
echo $dateObj->format("Y-m-d H:i:s").'<br>';
$dateIntervalObj = new DateInterval("P1M");
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; $i++) {
echo $dateObj->format("Y-m-d H:i:s").'<br>';
$dateObj->sub($dateIntervalObj);
}
Result:
2014-12-31 23:59:59
2014-11-30 23:59:59
2014-10-31 23:59:59
2014-09-30 23:59:59
2014-08-31 23:59:59
2014-07-31 23:59:59
2014-06-30 23:59:59
2014-05-31 23:59:59
2014-04-30 23:59:59
2014-03-31 23:59:59
2014-02-28 23:59:59
2014-01-31 23:59:59
2013-12-31 23:59:59
2014-12-31 23:59:59
2014-12-01 23:59:59
2014-10-31 23:59:59
2014-10-01 23:59:59
2014-08-31 23:59:59
2014-07-31 23:59:59
2014-07-01 23:59:59
2014-05-31 23:59:59
2014-05-01 23:59:59
2014-03-31 23:59:59
2014-03-03 23:59:59
2014-01-31 23:59:59
2013-12-31 23:59:59
2014-12-31 23:59:59
2014-12-31 23:59:59
2014-12-01 23:59:59
2014-11-01 23:59:59
2014-10-01 23:59:59
2014-09-01 23:59:59
2014-08-01 23:59:59
2014-07-01 23:59:59
2014-06-01 23:59:59
2014-05-01 23:59:59
2014-04-01 23:59:59
2014-03-01 23:59:59
2014-02-01 23:59:59

Answer 1

seems to always round up:
2014-10-31 +1 month => 2014-12-01 // this makes sense
2014-12-31 -1 month => 2014-12-01 // this doesn't
in both cases if the day does not exist, it uses the day after it.