#22436 [Opn]: Valid solution for working with < 1969 dates

ID: 22436 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: ivo at ibuildings dot nl Status: Open -Bug Type: Date/time related +Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Redhat Linux PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: Just a a note, PEAR has a date class capable of handling dates prior to 1969. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-26 08:22:23] ivo at ibuildings dot nl Hi, working with dates before 1970 with mktime sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. There are several bugs in the bug database describing this problem: bug #18802, bug #22163 and bug #20280. All are answered with stuff like "behaviour of mktime before 1970 is undefined", "it's not a php bug because it's due to glibc" etc. While all of these are most certainly true, it's not really a helpful answer to php users. PHP users just want to do stuff with dates. When working with birthdates, dates from before 1970 are quite common. Therefor, I request that the php date/time functions will be made such that they *work*, regardless of the operating system, the glibc version etc. Would you please consider doing this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22436&edit=1