Re: Time Processing

Hey, "A. R. M." <amojahed@uwo.ca> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.21.0110140153550.24872-100000@panther.uwo.ca... > Hi, > > As I said, PHP doesn't seem to have enough built-in functions to process > time values. > So, I wrote my own functions to deal with times and I'm posting them here > for either inclusion, or for other people's use. > > Here they are. Enjoy. > ===================== > > <?php > function CheckTime($t) { > /* Checks the value of a 24-hour formatted time to be correct. > Returns 0 if bad time format, 1 otherwise. > */ > return ( ereg("[012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9](:[0-5][0-9])?", $t) ); > } You'd need to adjust this, because by your regex, 29:00:00 would be a valid time. > /* I have no idea why mktime behaves this way, but I had to deduct 5 hours > to make it work right. As if it's returned in GMT. > */ Rather than subtracting a set value from this, use the time offset format of the date() function to get the difference (especially if in an area where daylight savings schemes are in effect - Z I believe: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php). Too tired to read through the rest, but hopefully that's off some use to you :-) James