Lots of ways to skin this particular cat.. Here's one way I'd do it
(broken out a bit so you can follow the flow):
$date = "1965-12-25";
List($year,$month,$day) = explode("-",$date);
$monthtext = date("M",mktime(0,0,0,$month,date("d"),date("Y")));
$fixeddate = "$day-$monthtext-$year";
You're right though, mktime doesn't like dates prior to 1/1/1970 (at
least on this Windows system) so I'd manipulate it in pieces. If all
you need to do is translate the "12" into a "Dec" then just pull the
month out and pick any day and year. This will work fine unless you're
trying to get "day of the week".
-TG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sudeep Zamudra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-WIN] Date format
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to convert a date 1965-12-25 into the format: 25-Dec-1965.
> When i use mktime it works fine for any date after the year
> 1970. It doesn't work for any date before 1970. Help please.
> Is there any function that shows the date in the above
> required format.
>
>
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