On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:46:28 -0600, Brent Clements
<brent.clements@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How does one over come the issue of unix time not going beyond a certain date?
Overcome the issue in what way? A 32bit integer is what it is.
> ie, when I do echo strtotime("2099-10-08"); it outputs -1
So don't use strtotime(). You're never going to fit an integer with
more than 32bits into a memory space of 32bits or less without losing
bits. The PHP manual seems pretty clear in what to do as far as
checking for failure:
$str = 'Not Good';
if (($timestamp = strtotime($str)) === -1) {
echo "The string ($str) is bogus";
} else {
echo "$str == " . date('l dS of F Y h:i:s A', $timestamp);
}
> This has to do with the limitations of unix time, so how does one get around it?
If it's stored in a db, you can use the date/time fields which usually
provide more storage space than 32bits. MySQL has timestamp for
example.
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