pollita Mon Jun 9 14:47:43 2003 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions strftime.xml
Log:
Add to C-lib limitations note re negative timestamps.
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/strftime.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/strftime.xml:1.6
phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/strftime.xml:1.7
--- phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/strftime.xml:1.6 Fri Mar 21 10:46:14
2003
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/strftime.xml Mon Jun 9 14:47:43 2003
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/datetime.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
<refentry id="function.strftime">
<refnamediv>
@@ -237,8 +237,13 @@
<para>
Not all conversion specifiers may be supported by your C
library, in which case they will not be supported by PHP's
- <function>strftime</function>. This means that e.g. %e, %T,
- %R and %D (there might be more) will not work on Windows.
+ <function>strftime</function>. Additionally, not all platforms
+ support negative timestamps, therefore your date range may
+ be limited to no earlier than the unix epoch. This means that
+ e.g. %e, %T, %R and %D (there might be more) and dates prior to
+ <literal>Jan 1, 1970</literal> will not work on Windows,
+ some Linux distributions, and a few other operating
+ systems.
</para>
</note>
<example>
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