[ciapug] Strtotime, and dates prior to 1970

[Chris Hettinger]

.. I have a function that I pass a unix timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) =
... and it returns a date formatted as (MM/DD/YYYY) for diplay =
reasons... Curious if anyone has a nifty way around the issue that =
strtotime() will not work with dates prior to 1970, the Unix epoch date. =
Below is the function and the date that I passed it.

I thought I can add something that will check the year value within the =
timestamp, and then if it prior to 1970 do a bit more work tearing apart =
the timestamp and reconstructing it in the format I need... just =
wondering if anyone has solution they found?


function mkSlashdate($vStamp) {
        if ($vStamp) {
                $date =3D date("m/d/Y", strtotime($vStamp));
                return $date;
        } else {
                echo "No time stamp received.<p>";
        }
}

Sent as: 1950-04-07 00:00:00
Returned as: 12/31/1969=20





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