On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon Heydon wrote:
Hi, On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 06:59 +0200, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Gordon Heydon wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knows of a decent method of converting dates from text to a time.
I did look at strtotime() but it will not convert anything before Jan 1, 1970 which is a problem since it is going to be used for a date of birth field, and some people will be over 35.
Note: The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.)
(from my version of the php manual entry for strtotime)
print strtotime("60 years ago");
gives me -774821398.
Well that gives me on both my ubuntu and debian linux systems both give me -1, It does say on the php site that it is windows and some linux distributions.
He, that's annoying. I tested on Debian too, and it fails. My earlier test was on a rather ancient SuSE distribution.
So if I use strtotime('31 Dec 1969') I get a -1, If it was giving me the rangi that it would say it would me ok.
http://de3.php.net/strtotime In the comments there is a safestrtotime() function that claims to support negative timestamps. Haven't tried it, though. Cheers, Gerhard