Re: date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

Hi Robert- You may want to spend a little more time with basic PHP tutorials, see: http://www.php.net/links To answer your question, the problem is with variable/string use, not any PHP functions. $blah in particular. Use quotes around strings: $blah = '2002-05-02'; Read about strings: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php As you are basically doing this: $blah = 2002 - 5 - 2; // 1995 Anyway, also consider: echo $thedate; Although the behavoir of strtotime(1995) does seem a little odd, in later versions of PHP it does try to do something but not sure exactly what ... yet. I'm assuming it returns -1 for you, in PHP3. Regards, Philip Olson On Fri, 3 May 2002, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote: > Running PHP3 on a Linux box and I've got trouble with date(). > > Here's the code: > > $blah=2002-05-02; > $thedate = date("D, M d, Y", strtotime($blah)); > $echo "$thedate"; > > > Why is $thedate resolving to Wed, Dec 31, 1969. > > Thanks! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >