RE: [PHP] Solutions for 1970 epoch date restriction

If you can't change your database for some reason, for instance if it's a legacy system or other large systems rely on that table format, look into PEAR's Date class, it can probably help you out. -Javier -----Original Message----- From: David Otton [mailto:phpmail@jawbone.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:00 PM To: YC Nyon Cc: php Subject: Re: [PHP] Solutions for 1970 epoch date restriction On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:41:15 +0800, you wrote: >I have a table that includes 3 columns for day, month and year. >Example: Day, Month, Year 11,Jan, 1974 >4,Sep, 1921 That would be your problem - you should be using your database's native date type. >I need to construct a query where users can specify a starting date. >Currently, I stuck in mktime function became of the 1970 epoch problem. >It gives an error for dates before 1970. Anyone has a solution? [assumes mysql] http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_types.html SELECT * FROM table WHERE start_date > '1969-08-25'; [for anyone who's interested, Raymond Chen's excellent journal had a short article on various Windows timestamps: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/99c54993-5c5e-45b9-95c1-c 20a0526ce0b] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php