Thanks for the pointer, but this only deals with date/time in EPOCH range.

I'm trying to handle dates pre-epoch.

Thanks

Walter



"Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * Thus wrote jsWalter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I have a fairly complicated regular expression that was written for
perl.
> >
> > I've spent the last 4 days trying to convert it to PHP.
>
> have you looked at strtotime()?
>   http://php.net/strtotime
>
> The Date formats it can find are defined here:
>   http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html
>
>
> Those regex's look like a nightmare, like they usually do :)
>
> >
> > # Does input match this RegEx?
> >
> >      (($day,$mon,$yr,$hr,$min,$sec,$tz) =
> >  /^
> >   (\w{1,3})             # month
> >      \s+
> >   (\d\d?)               # day
> >      \s+
> >   (\d\d?):(\d\d)        # hour:min
> >   (?::(\d\d))?          # optional seconds
> >      \s+
> >   (?:([A-Za-z]+)\s+)?   # optional timezone
> >   (\d+)                 # year
> >      \s*$               # allow trailing whitespace
> >  /x)
> >
>
>
> Curt
> --
> "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

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