[PHP] mktime()'s is_dst deprecated, but needed?

2006-10-16 Thread Zora
Hi all, (first time I send an email here, so please be forgiving if something doesn't follow expected rules.) My web application allows users to enter time stamps (date and time) given as local times. The time stamp is to be stored as UTC into the data base. Since we have summer and

[PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Ryan A
Hey, So far this is what I have done: - 1) read the files from a directory, discard the files with a .php extention and the directories (eg: . and .. ) 2) put the files into an array ($the_files[]) 3) put it into a while loop and display the files like so: echo

Re: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Stut
Ryan A wrote: echo $the_files[$i] . date(F d Y H:i:s., filectime($directory_with_files.$the_files[$i])); The next step is, I want to only echo the files that are over x minutes (or x hours) old, ignore anything below, I am using mktime() along with date() to format it accordingly...but am

Re: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Eric Butera
On 5/11/06, Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, So far this is what I have done: - 1) read the files from a directory, discard the files with a .php extention and the directories (eg: . and .. ) 2) put the files into an array ($the_files[]) 3) put it into a while

Re: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Ryan A
Hey, First, thank you Eric and Stut, your answers and this article that I found on the web http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/akent2610.php3?print_mode=1 put my mind back on the right tracksometimes its so damn silly how things you use for ages suddenly get muddled up in the head. Thanks

Re: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, May 11, 2006 3:37 pm, Ryan A wrote: So far this is what I have done: - 1) read the files from a directory, discard the files with a .php extention and the directories (eg: . and .. ) 2) put the files into an array ($the_files[]) 3) put it into a while

RE: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Jef Sullivan
- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:38 PM To: php php Subject: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems Hey, So far this is what I have done: - 1) read the files from a directory, discard the files with a .php extention and the directories

Re: [PHP] Mktime formatting problems

2006-05-11 Thread Ryan A
Hey Rich, 1) read the files from a directory, discard the files with a .php extention and the directories (eg: . and .. ) 2) put the files into an array ($the_files[]) 3) put it into a while loop and display the files like so: //Only do files over 2 hours old: if ((time()

[PHP] mktime() vs date()

2006-04-18 Thread Jasper V. Ferrer
hi, is mktime() actually faster than date() or any other date functions? tnx. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] mktime() vs date()

2006-04-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] hi, is mktime() actually faster than date() or any other date functions? [/snip] This sounds like the perfect opportunity for you to write a test and return the results. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] mktime month

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Steudel
Im a little confused on the number I should use for the month: Take the following: echo date('Ymd', mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 0, date(Y)) ); I expected it to output: 20060331 But instead it outputs 20060228. In the examples for january in the php manual I get december instead of january. Is

Re: [PHP] mktime month

2006-03-10 Thread Austin Denyer
Mark Steudel wrote: Im a little confused on the number I should use for the month: Take the following: echo date('Ymd', mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 0, date(Y)) ); I expected it to output: 20060331 But instead it outputs 20060228. Correct. You are asking it for the zeroth day of March,

RE: [PHP] mktime

2005-09-13 Thread Ford, Mike
On 13 September 2005 00:08, Dan Brow wrote: A little confused with mktime, I'm trying to get how many days are in a year. $year = 2006; $epoch = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 0, $year); // I have to have 1 You're asking for the 0th day of the first month here, which is (guess what!) the last day of

[PHP] mktime

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Brow
A little confused with mktime, I'm trying to get how many days are in a year. $year = 2006; $epoch = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 0, $year); // I have to have 1 for month or I get which day it is now. Which sucks. $date = date(z Y, $epoch); print($date); // here is the problem, I get 365 days, but the

Re: [PHP] mktime

2005-09-12 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dan Brow wrote: A little confused with mktime, I'm trying to get how many days are in a year. How about doing it differently. I'd tackle this problem like this: ?php $year = '2005'; $time = strtotime(1 January $year); $isLeapYear = date('L', $time); if($isLeapYear == '1') { $days =

Re: [PHP] mktime

2005-09-12 Thread Brian P. O'Donnell
Jasper Bryant-Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Brow wrote: A little confused with mktime, I'm trying to get how many days are in a year. How about doing it differently. I'd tackle this problem like this: ?php $year = '2005'; $time = strtotime(1

Re: [PHP] mktime

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Brow
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:13 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Dan Brow wrote: A little confused with mktime, I'm trying to get how many days are in a year. How about doing it differently. I'd tackle this problem like this: ?php $year = '2005'; $time = strtotime(1 January $year);

Re: [PHP] mktime

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Brow
snip I'd shorten it up even more: ? $daysinyear = 365 + date(L, strtotime(jan 1 . $year)); ? Thanks works perfect. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Mktime strange

2005-08-31 Thread Hal 9001 Consulting
Hello, I've got a problem with mktime. It's a very strange behaviour, I don't know if is a bug: echo date (M-d-Y, mktime (0,0,0,07,07,2005)); - Jul-07-2005 (right) echo date (M-d-Y, mktime (0,0,0,08,07,2005)); - Dec-07-2004 (?) Can anyone help me to solve this question? Is it a bug?

Re: [PHP] Mktime strange

2005-08-31 Thread Robin Vickery
On 8/31/05, Hal 9001 Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with mktime. It's a very strange behaviour, I don't know if is a bug: echo date (M-d-Y, mktime (0,0,0,07,07,2005)); - Jul-07-2005 (right) echo date (M-d-Y, mktime (0,0,0,08,07,2005)); - Dec-07-2004

[PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew
Hi there, On a host running: PHP 4.3.5 (cli) (built: Apr 3 2004 07:11:21) I found a strange error produced by the mktime() function: mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, 4, 2004) returns -7262 On my personal machine the return value is: 1081026000 If anybody's aware of that bug and if it's fixed, please

[PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Andy B
On my personal machine the return value is: 1081026000 interesting... i got 1081054800 from mine with the code: ? $time=mktime(0,0,0,4,4,2004); echo $time; ? even on cli it gives the same thing -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Nunners
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2004 11:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] mktime error On my personal machine the return value is: 1081026000 interesting... i got 1081054800 from mine with the code: ? $time=mktime(0,0,0,4,4,2004); echo $time; ? even on cli it gives

Re: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Red Wingate
Your Server will most likely run in a different timezone. If both of you would use gmktime() the result will be the same. As for the negative result: Had the same problem some time ago - seams to me as if PHP doesn't like those 0,0,0 ( try 0,0,1 instead ) - You can adjust the result by reducing

Re: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Red Wingate
Woops little mistake there, first of all it's 'gmmktime()' secondly the source should look something like: $var = mktime ( 0,0,1,4,4,2004 ) - 1; You can find a nice article on this topic here: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ehresman20030911.php3?page=1 -- red [...] Your Server will most

RE: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Hernan Marino
settings i.e. comparing american dates with UK dates (1/Aug/04 and 8/1/04)? Nunners -Original Message- From: Andy B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2004 11:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] mktime error On my personal machine the return value is: 1081026000

Re: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Hernan Marino
Guys, second thought. mktime builds a unix time stamp (since the unix epoch, Jan 1, 1970 [I guess]), the difference are maybe due to time zones, because its the number of seconds since Jan,1 1970. On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:29:12 -0400, Andy B wrote: On my personal machine the return value is:

[PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Andy B
if you need to turn the result of mktime() into a valid mysql timestamp format then put these 2 lines in your code when needed: ? //create valid mysql timestamp(14 digit) //change to fit your liking //sorry turned into a function... function CreateDate($day, $month, $year); //make sure no

Re: [PHP] mktime error

2004-04-05 Thread Red Wingate
You could do this like this ( as it is faster ): function CreateDate($day, $month, $year) { return $year.$month.$day.'00'; } CreateDate(04,04,2004) - 2004040400 But make sure you add the leading zero to $month and $day ( can be easily done (number_format for example) ) -- red Am

[PHP] mktime trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Peter Torraca
I'm taking a postgres timestamp from the database to something I can parse with PHP (i.e., a unix timestamp. Thing is, the date function isn't giving me the result I expect. Check this out: print date (m/d/y h:m:s A, mktime(16, 30, 0, 10, 10, 2003)); gives the output: 10/10/03 04:10:00 AM

Re: [PHP] mktime trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Peter Torraca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: print date (m/d/y h:m:s A, mktime(16, 30, 0, 10, 10, 2003)); gives the output: 10/10/03 04:10:00 AM Where did the 4:10 come from? It should be 4:*30*. 10 is the month, which is what the m means. Use i for minute: http://www.php.net/date Hope

[PHP] mktime with Feb or Jan ..

2003-02-03 Thread Torsten Rosenberger
Hello I parse the apache logfile and get a date format like this [03/Feb/2003:09:22:50 +0100] OK i split it with preg_match and the result is Array ( [0] = 03 [1] = Feb [2] = 2003 [3] = 09 [4] = 22 [5] = 50 ) Now I'd like to convert it in a timestamp with

Re: [PHP] mktime with Feb or Jan ..

2003-02-03 Thread Maxim Maletsky
readon about strtotime() function www.php.net/strtotime you might not even need to preg_match() it -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Torsten Rosenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : Hello I parse the apache logfile and get a date format like this [03/Feb/2003:09:22:50 +0100]

Re: [PHP] mktime with Feb or Jan ..

2003-02-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I parse the apache logfile and get a date format like this [03/Feb/2003:09:22:50 +0100] OK i split it with preg_match and the result is Array ( [0] = 03 [1] = Feb [2] = 2003 [3] = 09 [4] = 22 [5] = 50 ) Now I'd like to convert it in a timestamp with mktime

RE: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-03 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
-Original Message- From: Johnson, Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2003 23:29 The month behaves the same: both '08' and '09' are treated as zero by mktime(). A leading 0 on a number denotes it as octal. 08 and 09 are not valid octal numbers. PHP is interpreting as

[PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Johnson, Kirk
OK, I am mktime() challenged. Can someone please explain these results to me? I have some test dates in October of 1998. For the days numbered 1-7, mktime() does not care whether I have a leading zero on the day or not, I get the same timestamp regardless, e.g., both a '7' and a '07' for the day

Re: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Roberts
(0,0,0,10,9,1998); echo 0,0,0,10,9,1998 = $tmpbr; $tmp = mktime(0,0,0,10,09,1998); echo 0,0,0,10,09,1998 = $tmpbr; ? - Original Message - From: Johnson, Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:50 PM Subject: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number

RE: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Johnson, Kirk
The month behaves the same: both '08' and '09' are treated as zero by mktime(). Kirk -Original Message- From: Paul Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:24 PM To: Johnson, Kirk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] mktime() and the format

RE: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Michael J. Pawlowsky
Well you are right.. I also get the same results... I guess you found a bug... did you look in the bug reports to see if it already exists? Results Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:15:35 -0500 0,0,0,10,0,1998 = 907128000 0,0,0,10,00,1998 =

RE: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Michael J. Pawlowsky
Just to add to that... what it is doing is reading it as a 0. 0,0,0,09,30,1998 = 883458000 Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 -0500 0,0,0,0,30,1998 = 883458000 Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 -0500 Did you see this in the manual? The last day of any given month can be expressed as the 0 day of the next

Re[2]: [PHP] mktime() and the format of the day number entry

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Friday, January 3, 2003, 10:33:39 AM, you wrote: MJP Just to add to that... what it is doing is reading it as a 0. 0,0,0,09,30,1998 = 883458000 MJP Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 -0500 0,0,0,0,30,1998 = 883458000 MJP Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:00 -0500 MJP Did you see this in the manual? MJP The

[PHP] mktime() problem

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Mayer
Hi there, does anybody know, if the behaviour of mktime() on RedHat Linux 7.2 is fixed in one of the latest PHP versions? Since RH 7.3 it is not possible anymore, to get a negative integer from mktime(), that means you can't get a UNIX timestamp for a date before 1.1.1970I experienced this

[PHP] mktime() question

2002-08-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
Good morning! I need to subtract months by their abbreviated month name, so shouldn't this work? print(date(M, mktime(date(M)-$i)); and if I loop; Aug Jul Jun May Thanks! Jay What if the hokie pokie really is what it is all about *** *

RE: [PHP] mktime() question - SOLVED

2002-08-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I need to subtract months by their abbreviated month name, so shouldn't this work? print(date(M, mktime(date(M)-$i)); and if I loop; Aug Jul Jun May [/snip] Apparently not. But you can subtract by total hours in a given period, so for an average I chose 30 days * 24 hours

Re: [PHP] mktime() question

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Friday, August 2, 2002, 10:52:14 PM, you wrote: JB Good morning! JB I need to subtract months by their abbreviated month name, so shouldn't this JB work? JB print(date(M, mktime(date(M)-$i)); JB and if I loop; JB Aug JB Jul JB Jun JB May JB Does this help... $now = time(); $i

RE: [PHP] mktime parameters (Was: Replacing Number with Month(newbie))

2002-05-31 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Mike, Is there a magical function that I can use to convert 4 into April and 5 into May etc? can I use mktime() One yes no answer will do fine Yes and no ;-) Ha! I was just about to say exactly that myself! It was just too tempting :-) Except, to get just the month

[PHP] mktime()

2002-05-17 Thread Josh Edwards
After reading the manual Istill can't convert this 09/May/2002 to a timestamp. Any Pointers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] mktime()

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
A couple of ways to do it: strtotime('09 May 2002'); mktime(12,0,0,5,9,2002); On Sat, 18 May 2002, Josh Edwards wrote: After reading the manual Istill can't convert this 09/May/2002 to a timestamp. Any Pointers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

[PHP] mktime on W2K?

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Oien
I use this on a Unix server to get yesterday's date if it's a Saturday: if ($day == '6') { $today1 = date(Y:m:d, mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day-1,$year)); } But on my Windows 2000 machine it thinks it's 1999:12:05. How can I do this on Windows? Thanks. Jeff Oien -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-08 Thread DL Neil
Hi Erik, On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:11 AM, DL Neil wrote: My 'rules' are simple: If the date/time is for processing, keep it as a timestamp (consider which type). If the timestamp is being used to keep track of RDBMS activity, then use a TIMESTAMP column. By RDBMS

Re: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-07 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:11 AM, DL Neil wrote: My 'rules' are simple: If the date/time is for processing, keep it as a timestamp (consider which type). If the timestamp is being used to keep track of RDBMS activity, then use a TIMESTAMP column. By RDBMS activity, do you mean

Re: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-06 Thread DL Neil
to avoid potential problems with TIMESTAMP columns' unique features by just storing a PHP mktime() value into a VARCHAR(15) column (advice from someone on this list, I can't remember who). While it will mostly be a label, and I could take a shortcut, the advantage is that I can always reformat

Re: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-05 Thread Erik Price
' unique features by just storing a PHP mktime() value into a VARCHAR(15) column (advice from someone on this list, I can't remember who). While it will mostly be a label, and I could take a shortcut, the advantage is that I can always reformat the Unix timestamp (mktime()) for that later, and I

[PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-04 Thread Erik Price
PHP's mktime() function uses a timestamp that is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. MySQL uses the MMDDhhmmss format for its TIMESTAMP column type. I'm not complaining that they're not the same, but curious as to which I should use for storing timestamps -- does it matter? PHP

RE: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-04 Thread Alastair Battrick
Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 March 2002 22:12 To: PHP (E-mail) Subject: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ? PHP's mktime() function uses a timestamp that is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. MySQL uses the MMDDhhmmss format for its TIMESTAMP column type. I'm

Re: [PHP] mktime() into TIMESTAMP ?

2002-03-04 Thread DL Neil
Erik, PHP's mktime() function uses a timestamp that is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. MySQL uses the MMDDhhmmss format for its TIMESTAMP column type. I'm not complaining that they're not the same, but curious as to which I should use for storing timestamps -- does it

[PHP] mktime and date problems on porting

2002-02-12 Thread peke
windows 2000 php and apache says unexpected error on lines like netx one if ($iDiaIni==date(t,mktime(12,0,0,$iMes,$iDia,$iAnio)))

[PHP] mktime() Algorithm

2002-02-06 Thread David A Dickson
I need to create a function in another programming language that takes the same input as the php mktime() function and produces the exact same output as the php mktime() function. Does anybody out there know what the algorithm is? -- David A Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] mktime() Algorithm

2002-02-06 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:28, David A Dickson wrote: I need to create a function in another programming language that takes the same input as the php mktime() function and produces the exact same output as the php mktime() function. Does anybody out there know what the algorithm

[PHP] mktime() problem

2002-02-05 Thread toni baker
How can I make sure the user enters a date in format mm/dd/ and the date must be between the year 1600 and 2038. The script below meets the criterion above, except mktime() or strtotime() does not validate year 1600 dates. Any suggestions? Thanks $dateparts = explode('/', $Date); $month

[PHP] mktime and variables not working

2002-01-03 Thread Tom Beidler
I'm trying to calculate elapsed time and I'm having trouble using mktime with variables. Here's my code; $reformat_stop = str_replace(:, ,, $x[stop]) . ,1,1,2002; $stop=mktime($reformat_stop); I don't know how to format the code for mktime to use a variable. I keep getting -1 for $stop but if

[PHP] mktime() problem

2001-10-23 Thread james . fairbairn
Hi All, This is my first post to this list so forgive me if this has been covered a million times before I'm running 4.0.6 on a Solaris 8 box. The output given by echo mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970); is 3600. Shouldn't it be 0? My box's locale is set to the UK defaults, so as I write this we are

Re: [PHP] mktime() problem

2001-10-23 Thread DL Neil
I'm running 4.0.6 on a Solaris 8 box. The output given by echo mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970); is 3600. Shouldn't it be 0? My box's locale is set to the UK defaults, so as I write this we are in daylight savings (GMT+1). Would this make a difference? (I have already tried echo

RE: [PHP] mktime() problem

2001-10-23 Thread james . fairbairn
Thanks, I'll use gmmktime() from now on! James -Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 October 2001 13:54 To: Fairbairn,J,James,IVLH4 C; php-general Subject: Re: [PHP] mktime() problem I'm running 4.0.6 on a Solaris 8 box. The output given by echo mktime

RE: [PHP] mktime() problem

2001-10-23 Thread james . fairbairn
Oh dear, I still get -3600 when I do echo gmmktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970); Why? James -Original Message- From: Fairbairn,J,James,IVLH4 C Sent: 23 October 2001 13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] mktime() problem Thanks, I'll use gmmktime() from now on! James -Original

Re: [PHP] mktime() problem

2001-10-23 Thread DL Neil
-3600 when I do echo gmmktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970); Why? James -Original Message- From: Fairbairn,J,James,IVLH4 C Sent: 23 October 2001 13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] mktime() problem Thanks, I'll use gmmktime() from now on! James -Original Message- From

RE: [PHP] mktime + 4 days

2001-02-13 Thread PHPBeginner.com
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:06 PM To: php Subject: [PHP] mktime + 4 days Hi! How to get this to work for every month: $tomorrow = date ("d", mktime(0,0,0,0,date("d") +4 ) ); echo "Today + 4 days is $tomorrow br

[PHP] mktime + 4 days

2001-02-12 Thread Christopher Allen
Hi! How to get this to work for every month: $tomorrow = date ("d", mktime(0,0,0,0,date("d") +4 ) ); echo "Today + 4 days is $tomorrow br"; screws up Feb et al Thanks, Christopher C. M. Allen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[PHP] mktime() not allowing dates before 1970

2001-01-25 Thread Diego Fulgueira
I know the UNIX epoch is 1/1/1970 and that mktime() returns the number of seconds between that date and the date specified by its parameters. If this date is before 1/1/1970, it always returns -1, not a large negative number, which would be more reasonable, i think. The question is: How can I

Re: [PHP] mktime() not allowing dates before 1970

2001-01-25 Thread Monte Ohrt
use Date_Calc. http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Date_Calc/ Diego Fulgueira wrote: I know the UNIX epoch is 1/1/1970 and that mktime() returns the number of seconds between that date and the date specified by its parameters. If this date is before 1/1/1970, it always returns -1, not a