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: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14473&edit=1 > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]