Re: Can't use strtotime for dates before 1970. Why not??

From: "Free Grafton" <free@churchcommunitybuilder.com> > We provide a MySQL, PHP solution to customers. One of the fields that we > store for the customers are birthdates. We just recently upgraded from Red > Hat 7.1 to Red Hat 9.0 and now have realized that at version 7.3 they > changed it where strtotime no longer shows values before 1/1/1970 as > negative values. It nows creates a ­1 error. Thus, we are now left with any > individual over the age of 33 to not be able to calculate their birthdate. > This is quite frustrating as there are no other functions that can handle > this that we have found. I have looked around the PHP boards and it appears > that individuals are having to build custom functions to handle this and are > also frustrated with this issue. You can use this in your query to calculate the age: year(current_date) - year(dob) - (if(dayofyear(dob)>dayofyear(current_date),1,0)) where "dob" is the Date of Birth column in a MySQL DATE format. ---John Holmes...