Re: Numbers to Date

From: Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:11:57 +0000
Subject: Re: Numbers to Date
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Your number system is screwy. Is 03100 the first day, tenth day, or the hundreth?? ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com> To: "zavaboy" <zavaboy@hotmail.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Numbers to Date > $date = '03135'; > $year = substr($date,0,2); //Set $year to first two digits > $days = substr($date,2); //Set $days to the rest > $date = strtotime("january 1 $year +$days days"); //Set $date to > timestamp of that date > echo date('l, F j, Y',$date); //Echo formatted date > > zavaboy wrote: > > >This does have a little to do with my other post... the fact that we're > >talkin about 5 digits... Anyway, I want to change a 5 digit number to a full > >date: > > > >For example... > > > >The number: > >03135 //(Today) The first 2 digits indacate the year and > >the last 3 indacate the day of the year (if the day is 1 or 2 digits it will > >fill in the blanks with 0 eg: 03500 is Jan 5) > > > >I want PHP to find out the date and put it in this format: "Friday, May 16, > >2003" (no quotes) ( as if I used: date("l, F j, Y") ) > > > >I'm stumped on how to do this... Any help? > > > > -- > The above message is encrypted with double rot13 encoding. Any unauthorized attempt to decrypt it will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >

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