Re: Re: british date format

André Medeiros wrote:

Yeah, that would be the way to do it ;) On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

André Medeiros wrote:

Shawn, I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that format he was telling about. After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in PHP5. Sorry about that mate. On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:

Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:

Hi Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)

setlocale() and then... http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php -Shawn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Couldn't see any other way. *nix strtotime is supposed to use locale.

Fixed that for me: $date = '20/12/1971'; $d = explode('/', $date); echo mktime(0 ,0, 0, $d[1], $d[0],$d[2])."\n";

-Shawn

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I was bored. Just an example, and I named it _eur because I assume that all European dates are this way, but some may have a / or a - or . separator. intval() is to remove preceding 0 or it is treated as octal. <?php function strtotime_eur($date) {

    preg_match('|([0-9]{1,2})[/.-]([0-9]{1,2})[/.-]([0-9]{2,4})|',

$date, $parts);

    if(count($parts) != 4) {
        return false;
    }
    $d = intval($parts[1]);
    $m = intval($parts[2]);
    $y = intval($parts[3]);

    return mktime(0 ,0, 0, $m, $d, $y);

} ?> -Shawn