[ciapug] Strtotime, and dates prior to 1970

[Jerry Weida]

Don't usually like having to caculate dates, but in this instance, if we are just adjusting the way it's being displayed, then I wouldn't even bother with the date().  Just break apart the string itself.


function mkSlashdate($vStamp) {
        if ($vStamp) {
		list($date,$time) = split(" ",$vStamp);
		list($year,$month,$day) = split("-",$date);
		$slashDate = $month . "/" . $day . "/" . $year;
		return $slashDate;
        } else {
                echo "No time stamp received.<p>";
        }
}



Chris Hettinger wrote:

>.. 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) {
>                $date = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($vStamp));
>                return $date;
>        } else {
>                echo "No time stamp received.<p>";
>        }
>}
>
>Sent as: 1950-04-07 00:00:00
>Returned as: 12/31/1969 
>
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