note 87365 deleted from function.strtotime by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:09:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 87365 deleted from function.strtotime by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Muhammad Muzzammil
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ash[at]ashmckenzie[dot]org, edit your code as below and run it.
<?php
$dates = array('11/12/2008', '12/12/2008', '13/12/2008');
foreach ( $dates as $date ) {
$result = strtotime($date);
if ( ! $result || $result == -1 ) { $result = 'false/-1'; }
print "INFO: $date result=[$result] => " . date('jS \of F Y h:i:s A',
$result) . "\n";
}
?>
INFO: 11/12/2008 result=[1226448000] => 12th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM
INFO: 12/12/2008 result=[1229040000] => 12th of December 2008 12:00:00 AM
Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in - on line 6
INFO: 13/12/2008 result=[false/-1] =>
You'll notice that the date is represented as m/d/y, NOT d/m/y. My guess is that PHP4
'fixes' dates, which means that 13 represents January next year. However, this is not
available in PHP5.