Re: Re: strtotime

"Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de news: 4916947B.2070008@lsces.co.uk... > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >>>> I'll translate >>>> >>>> In PHP4, strtotime works fine >>>> >>>> in PHP5 strtotime gives a result of 19700101 when the data entered was >>>> strtotime("20080950") >>>> >>>> >>> What does "work fine" mean? "20080950" isn't normal, so what >>> is the >>> expected result? > >> Well, for starts Micah is right, your date string will be interpreted as >> the 50th of September, 2008, which isn't valid and defaults to the time >> represented by the timestamp 0. If you want to turn 8-digit number >> strings into timestamps, make sure of two things: >> >> 1.It's actually a string and not a number >> 2.The string is in the format yyyymmdd >> >> The strings can be a variety of formats, all found at >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/manual/html_node/Date-input-formats.html >> >> which is a link available on the strtotime manual page. > > I seem to remember a previous discussion about this 'bug' but I can't > track the notes. Is it not the case that you can simply add days or months > to the 'number' and then use strtotime to output the 'normalised' date. So > adding 30 to 20th Sept would return 20th October. This very useful feature > was corrected as a bug in the rewrite of Date in PHP5.1? > Reason for looking for the notes was to remember how one has to do it now > .... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL Thanks everybody for your answer. Yes, this is a very useful feature to add days in a date. My version of PHP is 5.2.0.... Fx GILLES