diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 797660d3381..8d59a25d9bb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 
 - Fixed bug #51732 (Fileinfo __construct or open does not work with NULL).
   (Pierre)
+- Fixed bug #51725 (xmlrpc_get_type() returns true on invalid dates). (Mike)
 - Fixed bug #51723 (Content-length header is limited to 32bit integer with
   Apache2 on Windows). (Pierre)
 - Fixed bug #51721 (mark DOMNodeList and DOMNamedNodeMap as Traversable).
diff --git a/ext/date/php_date.c b/ext/date/php_date.c
index 07cfcec2fb5..db15771feb9 100644
--- a/ext/date/php_date.c
+++ b/ext/date/php_date.c
@@ -1362,10 +1362,16 @@ PHPAPI void php_date_set_tzdb(timelib_tzdb *tzdb)
 PHPAPI signed long php_parse_date(char *string, signed long *now)
 {
 	timelib_time *parsed_time;
+	timelib_error_container *error = NULL;
 	int           error2;
 	signed long   retval;
 
-	parsed_time = timelib_strtotime(string, strlen(string), NULL, DATE_TIMEZONEDB);
+	parsed_time = timelib_strtotime(string, strlen(string), &error, DATE_TIMEZONEDB);
+	if (error->error_count) {
+		timelib_error_container_dtor(error);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	timelib_error_container_dtor(error);
 	timelib_update_ts(parsed_time, NULL);
 	retval = timelib_date_to_int(parsed_time, &error2);
 	timelib_time_dtor(parsed_time);