Re: Bilingual strtotime()
| From: | Peter Lind | Date: | Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:24:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bilingual strtotime() | ||
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On Feb 6, 2011 11:16 AM, "Per Jessen" <per@computer.org> wrote:
>
> Alexis wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there was a way to use the strtotime() function
> > when the months are in one or the other of the above two languages?
>
> Ah, I misread this earlier - strtotime(), not strftime(). You're
> talking about transforming from text to a locale()-neutral format. I
> don't think strtotime() is locale-sensitive - according to the manual:
>
> "The function [strtotime] expects to be given a string containing an
> English date format"
>
>
>
Strtotime can read a number of formats, but does (from experience) have
problems with some. It won't work with textual dates in anything but
English, far as I know.
Regards
Peter