RE: [PHP-WIN] Bug in mktime-function ?

Er...does this mean that those of us born before the advent of Unix don't exist? :-) Ignatius > -----Original Message----- > From: Pablo Vera [mailto:pvz@vercan.com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 04:30 > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Bug in mktime-function ? > > > Dirk: > > Date/time values in PHP are handled as UNIX timestamps, that is, the > number of seconds since what they call the UNIX Epoch (whatever it > means), in other words, 1970. Before that, nothing existed, so no > need for time. > > Saludos, > Pablo > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 10:29:36 AM, Dirk wrote: > > > DDdc> Hello PHP-users, > > DDdc> given the following code snippet to convert > ISO-date-strings to localized > DDdc> date-strings: > > DDdc> <?php > > DDdc> $stringArray = explode("-", "1985-01-01"); > DDdc> $month = $stringArray[1]; > DDdc> $day = $stringArray[2]; > DDdc> $year = $stringArray[0]; > > DDdc> $date = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); > DDdc> $value = strftime("%d.%m.%Y", $date); > > DDdc> echo $value; > ?>> > > DDdc> This code works fine as long as I use dates after 1970, > all earlier > DDdc> dates result in an empty value. > DDdc> According to the docs, mktime is supposed to work fine > with 4-digit > DDdc> dates. > > DDdc> What is the problem here... > > DDdc> Greetings, > > DDdc> Dirk > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >