RE: [PHP-DB] Help with Date
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:38:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] Help with Date | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db php.general |
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> Is there a way to convert a date " 20/11/2002 " to a Float number in
PHP,
> since the date starts in 30/12/1899, just like the delphi treats the
> dates....
Yeah, of course. To convert "20/11/2002" into a float, just do
echo (float)"20/11/2002";
and you get 20!!
Or you can use strtotime() to convert it to a Unix timestamp (integer,
number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970).
---John Holmes...