Re: converting seconds since unix epoc to date array

How is the date stored, MySQL db??? if so, you can select dates out as unix timestamps. Otherwise i would use mktime or strtotime... Jason Jason FB <jasonfb@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to convert a date stored in the format > "YYYY-MM-DD" to an integer of seconds since unix epoc, > > then add $daysToAdd days to this value (I suppose if the integer was > a number of seconds it would have to be $daysToAdd*60*60*24 to get > the number of seconds to add) > > then convert the new value to a timestamp which I can output using the function > > string date ( string format [, int timestamp]) > > I tried doing this with mktime() and couple different ways using > strtotime() and also with strftime() but I kept getting -1 as the > result for strtotime() indicating the function couldn't interpret the > given date. > > I've been through all the date-related functions in the manual I can > think of, but I'm stumpped on this one...