note 109120 added to function.strptime

Be careful: the output of strptime() ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php ) cannot always be used with mktime() ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php )! This is not because of what platform you're using or what format strings glibc supports. This is simply because strptime returns years SINCE 1900 (as documented above) and mktime expects a year in the format returned by date('Y') - which is the full 4 digits. Therefore, if you parse a date with strptime and want to give it to mktime, you have to pass in ($parsed_time['tm_year'] + 1900) as the year parameter to mktime(), not just $parsed_time['tm_year']. This issue arose when I had a date like: 19/06/2012 12:03:34. strtotime() doesn't parse this particular format, so I needed custom parsing. So I ended up with: 1. $ts = $service->getNeededDateTime(); 2. $ts = strptime($ts, '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S'); 3. $ts = mktime($ts['tm_hour'], $ts['tm_min'], $ts['tm_sec'], $ts['tm_mon'], $ts['tm_mday'], ($ts['tm_year'] + 1900)); ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 144.124.16.33 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109120 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109120 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109120 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php