ID: 17123
Comment by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Won\'t fix
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: WinNT5.0
PHP Version: 4.2.0
New Comment:
PEAR offers a Date() and a Date_Calc() class which is capable of
handling dates pre 1970 and post 2038. PEAR::Date is part of the
standard PHP distribution.
Example:
require_once 'Date/Date.php';
$oDate =& new Date('1967-09-23 00:00:00');
print $oDate->format('%d/%B/%Y %H.%M.%S');
See also:
http://pear.php.net
http://docs.akbkhome.com/pearcvs/Date.html
Previous Comments:
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[2002-11-24 14:47:12] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sadly, I had to rebuild date function to be compatible with mylocal..
here's the code, extensions are welcome:
function mydate($format, $timestamp = null) {
if ($timestamp == null) {
return @date($format);
}
if ($timestamp > -1) {
return @date($format, $timestamp);
}
$dateArr = $this->mylocaltime($timestamp, true);
$search = array("s","i","H","d","m","Y","y", "z","I");
$replace = array(sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_sec"]),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_min"]),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_hour"]),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_mday"]),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_mon"]+1),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_year"]+1900),
sprintf("%02d",$dateArr["tm_year"] - (floor($dateArr["tm_year"] / 100)
* 100)),
$dateArr["tm_yday"], $dateArr["tm_isdst"]);
return str_replace($search, $replace, $format);
}
// enjoy
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[2002-11-24 13:13:43] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just use Julian dates as supported by the calendar extension.
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[2002-11-24 13:11:42] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem is that all of the PHP date functions are based on that
miserable timestamp.
At least if there were a consisent set of alternative functions that
handle dates and bypass this problem it would be nice.
The bottom line of having no official result for this is unbearable,
there's no way to calculate the age diffrence of people who are older
than 33..
This is quite basic and the lack of it makes this otherwise very strong
language - very poor and unprofessional.
too bad.
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[2002-11-04 04:53:54] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem still occurs with 4.2.3: mktime(0,0,0,09,23,1967) returns
-1 instead of a valid timestamp.
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[2002-08-04 04:47:40] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since the time stamp is started from 1970, I don't think it supposed to
work in anyways.
Or is there anything wrong is returned when too small/large date is
supplied? It should fail, but it should not crash PHP for example.
Please reopen if PHP behaves badly.
BTW, there should be feature requests for more generic date functions
so no need for feature request also.
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