Re: date problem
| From: | Ken Robinson | Date: | Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:05:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: date problem | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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At 04:57 PM 1/3/2013, Marc Fromm wrote:
I am comparing to dates.
define('WSOFFBEGIN','09/16/2012');
$jes = 01/03/2012;
if ( date("m/d/Y", strtotime($jes)) < date("m/d/Y", strtotime(WSOFFBEGIN)) )
{
$error = " MUST begin after " . WSOFFBEGIN . "\n";
}
I cannot figure out why the $error is being assigned inside the if statement, since the statement should be false. 01/03/2012 is not less than 09/16/2012.
You shouldn't be comparing the date strings, but the UNIX timestamp values:
define('WSOFFBEGIN','09/16/2012');
$jes = 01/03/2012;
if ( strtotime($jes) < strtotime(WSOFFBEGIN) )
{
$error = " MUST begin after " . WSOFFBEGIN . "\n";
}
Ken