Download: http://php.weblogs.com/adodb_date_time_library
PHP native date functions use integer timestamps for computations. Because of this, dates are restricted to the years 1901-2038 on Unix and 1970-2038 on Windows due to integer overflow for dates beyond those years. This has been frustrating for me, so i developed this library to overcome these limitation by replacing the native function's signed integers (normally 32-bits) with PHP floating point numbers (normally 64-bits) when necessary. This library supports dates from 100 A.D. to billions of years in the future. It also fixes the problem of negative timestamps (pre-1970) not supported on Windows. To use, simply replace getdate() with adodb_getdate() date() with adodb_date() gmdate() with adodb_gmdate() mktime() with adodb_mktime() gmmktime() with adodb_gmmktime() This library is available as a standalone PHP file, and you do not have to use the ADOdb database abstraction classes if you do not want to. Performance For high speed, this library uses the native date functions where possible, and only switches to PHP code when the dates fall outside the 32-bit signed integer range. Quality Assurance For QA, several thousand dates were randomly generated and the results of the adodb_* date functions were compared with the native PHP versions. Years between 100 A.D. and 3000 A.D were also tested. The code is Y2K compliant -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
