ID: 14313
Comment by: martinn at portant dot com
Reported By: vipm at mac dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Date/time related
Operating System: windows98
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:
Definitely a bug. Folks normally use strtotime() to rearrange dates
input by a user into a usable date. Ubiquitous Dreamweaver codes:
date("Y-m-d",strtotime($theValue))
to format all user-input dates. There isn't a calendar function you can
use as a work-around (as rasmus suggested).
Martin
Previous Comments:
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[2002-11-14 02:21:45] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are plenty of other time formats you can use for this. See the
calendar functions at php.net/calendar.
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[2002-11-14 01:27:26] magician at romantissimo dot com
Classifying this bug as "bogus" is simply not satisfactory. The
function is obviously using the wrong int size and messing up on unix
times less than 1970-01-01 (Unix time zero).
This is DEFINATELY a serious and fatal bug. How can you validate a
birthdate if customers are not allowed to be older that 32?
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[2002-07-07 22:59:22] kfleming54 at hotmail dot com
I agree with [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has to be
a fix or workaround. If windows is returning a different
format or whatever, there should be a configuration param
or a different routine provided. Just like javascript and
other script engines have to deal with Microsofts demand
that everyone conform to them.
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[2002-05-08 11:29:04] jasonh at trurocollege dot ac dot uk
This still happens in PHP 4.2.0 under WinNT (dates before 1970 are
invalid). This makes it hard to use PHP with the MSSQL extension since
it converts fields to strings, and therefore you *need* to be able to
convert the strings it generates (such as "Sep 1 1969 12:00AM") to
timestamps if you want to perform any manipulations (or present the
date in a better format).
Obviously, Windows *can* cope with dates before 1970, as can every
Windows application I know of, so it's very hard to understand *why*
PHP is unique in not being able to cope. Is there not even a
workaround?
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[2001-12-02 06:28:41] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not a bug... PHP uses the native system calls for this. The windows API
simply returns different (wrong) results. There is nothing that can be
done about it.
Derick
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