We do exist, but on a different time frame, something like a parallel
universe ... just kidding ;-)

Pablo.

Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 5:01:24 PM, Ignatius wrote:

IT> Er...does this mean that those of us born before the advent of Unix don't exist? 
:-)

IT> Ignatius

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pablo Vera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 04:30
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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