On May 5, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Peter Lind wrote:
On 5 May 2010 16:58, Philip Thompson philthath...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all.
Long time no see! Anyway, I'm having an issue with strtotime(). Why do the
following return valid timestamps?
?php
echo strtotime ('a').': '.date (m/d/Y, strtotime ('a')).br/;
echo strtotime ('a,a').': '.date (m/d/Y, strtotime ('a,a')).br/;
echo strtotime ('a,a,a').': '.date (m/d/Y, strtotime ('a,a,a')).br/;
?
These result in today's date:
1273049449: 05/05/2010
1273049449: 05/05/2010
1273049449: 05/05/2010
Each time the page is reloaded, the seconds jump up... but still today's
date. Why is this? I can repeat the same results by changing the 'a' to any
other single letter: g or h,k or r,s,t or whatever - all the same
result.
This was discusses a little while ago, have a look at
news.php.net/php.general/303839/Logical-reason-for-strtotime-east-and-strtotime-west-returningvalid-results.html
and the responses.
Regards
Peter
Thanks for the link. I did a little bit more research and found a site that may
help explain what is happening.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm
In the column labeled Zone are all the letters of the alphabet (except J).
So, then I thought to print the times with the date() functions above - they
were various time(zones). Basically, I think strotime() is just ignoring the
characters after the first comma in the values above, so then it was finding
valid timezones. Odd.
Hope this helps someone in the future
Thanks,
~Philip
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