Re: Problems reformatting Unix timestamp with strftime

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:04:01AM +0000, Steven Hirschorn wrote: > I've checked this in the PHP documentation and done a scan of the > archive to try to work out where I am going wrong but have failed. I > know I could fix this problem by using substrings and processing them, > but PHP has a simpler function which should work. Shouldn't it? > > In my database a record has a timestamp of: > 20010213173654 > > I extract the timestamp with a select statement, and process it with: > > strftime("%A, %e %B %Y", $lastmodified) (where lastmodified is the > variable containing the timestamp) > > and it produces the output: > Monday, 18 January 2038 > > Does anyone know why PHP isn't interpreting the timestamp correctly? I > can't work out how it could misinterpret the timestamp like this... You haven't read the PHP Manual carefully: http://php.net/mktime http://php.net/date -Egon -- http://www.linuxtag.de/ http://php.net/books.php http://www.concert-band.de/ http://www.php-buch.de/