note 25990 added to function.strtotime

I was actually wondering about the strtotime performance. It is, in fact a handy and powerful function (it even understands strtotime('last month');). My initial though was, using explode>mktime method, (especially in situations, when i exactly know what date format i have on input (eg YYYY-mm-dd)) i will get results quicker. Made some quick benchmarks, between two loops (postdate array holds 50,000 random dates): // 1. strtotime method for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($postdate); $i++) { $ts[$i] = strtotime($postdate[$i]); } // 2. explode, mktime method for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($postdate); $i++) { list ($y,$m,$d) = explode('-', $postdate[$i]); $ts[$i] = mktime(0,0,0,$m,$d,$y); } I was suprised to see the results, strtotime() was quicker - 1.25 s vs explode > mktime - 2.20 s. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+25990 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+25990 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+25990