Check out strtotime in the PHP manual. It gives a few examples of how to use the function that I think will answer your first question. Next, check out mktime, time, and date.
> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael T. Peterson > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] [Q] Converting SQL Datetimes to timestamps > > Evidently the strtotime() function will not convert an SQL datetime to a > timestamp. Am I missing something? Here's an example of what I mean: > > $sql_datetime = '1948-30-03 01:30:00'; > $ts = strtotime( $sql_datetime ); > print( $ts.'<br>'); > > When this script is executed, strtotime() returns -1. > > If true, that strtotime() is unable to convert SQL datetimes into > timestamps, how are others accomplishing this? > > Cheers, > > Michael > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
