On Wednesday 06 March 2002 04:31, Andy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am playing around with the timestamp functions. I created a timestamp
> with mysql ( the row is timestamp)
> and do reformat this thing after selecting with php in the folowíng way:
>
>  $date_posted[$i] = strftime("%A, %d-%m-%Y %R", $date_posted[$i]);
>
> This always returns Tuesday, 19-01-2038 but the mysql timestamp says:
> 20020305211704

They return the time in different formats. Read the MySQL manual then read 
the PHP manual (or vice-versa).

The MySQL timestamp is human readable. So in your example above:

20020305211704 ==> 2002-03-05 21:17:04

time() in PHP is the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.

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Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk

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