note 28905 rejected from function.date by sp

Note Submitter: No@spam@cam@wecreate.nukethis.com ---- Beware of the evil integer overflow. The following code will not work for dates older than December 14 1901 (and presumably some time in 2037). $date="1901-12-13"; // and older list($year,$month,$day) = split("-",$date); $time =mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); echo date("l F jS, Y",$time); I get "Wednesday December 31st, 1969" every time. Why? (I think) mktime() returns "-1" for dates that are before this which is the equivalent of EPOCH-1 when passed into the date() function. I'd assume that this problem isn't present on 64-bit hardware. Does anyone have a work around? Preferably one that doesn't involve rewriting the date function.