Is there a way I can force PHP's time functions not to read date strings
in the American MM-DD- format?
I am using strtotime and strftime and date at various points (mainlty to
avoid some niggly 0/NULL problems between PHP and mySQL
and datefields).
My date calculations (which are done in
try using this function to re-order UK to US dates and vice versa
// converts a UK date (DD-MM-YYY) to a US date (MM-DD-) and vice
versa so strtotime doesn't fail
// expects a string such as 24/05/2004 or 05/24/2004
function convertDate ($sDate) {
$aDate = split (/, $sDate);
On 16 January 2004 11:14, Tom wrote:
Is there a way I can force PHP's time functions not to read
date strings
in the American MM-DD- format?
I am using strtotime and strftime and date at various points (mainlty
to avoid some niggly 0/NULL problems between PHP and mySQL
and
Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:
On 16 January 2004 11:14, Tom wrote:
Is there a way I can force PHP's time functions not to read
date strings
in the American MM-DD- format?
[*snip*]
Is there a way I can have strtotime read 10-01-2004 (and
all other such
date connotations) as the 10th Jan and
Tom wrote:
The end user gets to chose their date format, and so if I cannot reverse
their arbitrary date format into a timestamp then I have no chance of
ensuring that dates are correct.
This seems like a really fundamentally bad thing about PHP :(
Seems like a fundamental flaw in your
Tom wrote:
Is there a way I can force PHP's time functions not to read date strings
in the American MM-DD- format?
If you read the strtotime() manual page, there is a link to this page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_7.html which
gives you all of the formats that are
John W. Holmes wrote:
Tom wrote:
The end user gets to chose their date format, and so if I cannot
reverse their arbitrary date format into a timestamp then I have no
chance of ensuring that dates are correct.
This seems like a really fundamentally bad thing about PHP :(
Seems like a
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