Re: TimeStamp BEFORE 1970

Hi Richard, Well, I took a look at, and I think it is TOO complex to handler a simple thing.. Well, that's my little contribution:

    function str2time($input = '12/31/1969')
    {
        $year    = substr($input, -4);

        $input    = substr_replace($input, 1976 , -4);

        return floor(strtotime($input) + (($year - 1976) * (31557376.189582)));
    }

It work with ONLY a few hours more or less compared to my MacOS strtotime function, now I don't know which one is more accurate.. Well, why did you choose the year 1976, because it's an bisixth(?) year. So it was a matter of simple math. I would appreciate any help from everybody to: As I suppose that the last 4 digits are the year, I would like a pattern that could match a four digits number inside a string. Any body know how many seconds and microseconds have a year, I found a round number (31557376.189582). Well, any help is appreciate. At least now I can work on a windows box. Best Regards, Bruno B B Magalhaes On Jul 7, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Richard Davey wrote:

Hello Bruno, Thursday, July 7, 2005, 7:04:44 PM, you wrote: BBBM> I've read the manual, and the ADOdb Date package functions, and BBBM> I am not using this because I want to keep my framework simple, BBBM> flexible, and fast. BBBM> Well, I just want a simple way to translate dates (I know what BBBM> is the input format) to unix timestamp, with ability to do this BBBM> with dates before 1970, and after 2023, is there any way? Personally I'd use the Pear Date package. It's stable, well formed and will do exactly what you require: http://pear.php.net/package/Date Even if you don't like the thought of using it - you can always pour over the source code to look at their methods and see how they handle it. Best regards, Richard Davey