just a fyi on why.  strtotime obeys the information found here:

  http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html

so, doing strtotime('Twelfth December 2001'); will work.  anyway, fwiw 
there you have it :)

regards,
philip olson

On 12 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> ID: 14473
> Updated by: derick
> Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Status: Open
> Old Bug Type: Date/time related
> Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
> Operating System: Redhat 7.2
> PHP Version: 4.1.0
> New Comment:
> 
> >From the manual:
> 
> strtotime --  Parse about any English textual datetime description into a UNIX 
>timestamp
> 
> please note it says any, not all.
> 
> Moving this to a feature request.
> 
> Derick
> 
> Previous Comments:
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> [2001-12-12 18:36:30] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> strtotime('12th December 2001')
> 
> returns -1
> 
> The 'th' after the number causes the problem, but this is a perfectly acceptable 
>date representation and should be recognised I believe.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14473&edit=1
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