Re: [SMARTY-DEV] html_select_date bug - maybe ?

It uses strtotime(), so only 1970-2038 dates work correctly. It wouldn't be so difficult to create a replacement plugin that uses Date_Calc from PEAR, which is consequently a library I contributed some time back. :) Monte On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:13, pete M wrote: > smarty 2.5.0 > > I'm using html_select_date to enter peoples birth dates in my application. > > I understand the problem with epoch time and have used the format > 'yyyy-mm-dd' to store in database/variable/etc and using a modified > version of 'date_format' to present the date. > > However 'html_select_date' gives spurious date/month values pre 1970's > > eg giving 1945-02-01 to html_select_date displays 1945-01-01 > > Indeed anything pre 1970's seems to give spurios errors with the date or > month values (year seems to be correct) > > Is this because the timestamp is not handled correctly or should I not > be using html_select_date for pre 1970 ?? > > Hope it makes sense > > tia > > Pete