From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: all
PHP version:      4.3.0
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Strftime: negative timestamps

Situation:
The function strftime does return false for negative unix-timestamps.

Problem:
The functions mktime and strtotime return negative values for dates before
1970-01-01 00:00 UT.
Many users try something like:

strftime($format,strtotime($date_before_1970))

and wonder why this does not work.

If the behavior for timestamps before second 0 
(start of Jan 1., 1970 UT) is undefined why do all other time functions
return negative values ?
The documentation for strftime does not say anything about negative values
for timestamps, too.

Solution:
Let strftime return values (Gregorian calendar) for negative timestamps.
(Perhaps there should be a warning ?)

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