Re: strtotime failure

In article <E0C5888608A0D21182C00008C7096A67F39A54@mail.keh>, j.koenig@keh-berlin.de says... > Hallo, > > Why would strtotime fail (i.e. return a -1)? I check the type with gettype, > which tells me that the argument I'm passing in is a string. I cast it to a > string before passing it in, with the same results (returns a -1). The only > thing that seems to do anything is to settype it to "string" before calling > strtotime, which ends up with bizarre results. > > The arguments I'm passing in are, for example 11:00, 13:00, 14:30, etc, and > are coming out of a database. Only SOME of this data results in a -1 when I > call strtotime on it. Other records (the same numbers - 11:00, 13:00, etc.) > come out fine. > > Could the data that's failing strtotime have been corrupted on data-entry? > Why does is_string on this data tell me it's a string? > > --Jennifer Koenig > For a first guess, try using trim or chop on the data before feeding it to strtotime, in case there are unexpected white spaces in the data. -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi! Quod subigo farinam