Re: getting a date 25 years back

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You should do date arithmetic using the Unix date format (number of 
seconds since 1970).
I think these string format dates are not appropriate.
Mario

Merlin wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to create a date which is 25 years back from today. The 
> purpose of this is to be able to query a mysql database "date" field 
> for columns smaller than this date.
>
> I tried this:
> $years = 25;
> $start_from = date("Y-m-d",strtotime("- ".$years." year"));
>
> Somehow it always ads the years instead of subtracting.
>
> Has anybody an idea on how to do that?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help,
>
> Merlin

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