> > Greetings all, > > I am trying to find a function or a way to parse a date that has the > following format 2005124 or 20051204. > > When I have a date that has a single digit (ie month, day) > all the date/time > function seem to go bizarre. > > When it is a full 8 digit string everything is fine. > When there are delimiters between year month day (ie > 2005-4-23) everything > is fine. > > I tried strtotime(%Y/%m/%d, "2005124") and this is the result: > 1970/01/23. > > Any thoughts? Hi Phil, There is no programmatic way to know. in the case of your example above, "2005124", how would the program know whether it is supposed to be 2005-12-04 or 2005-1-24? JM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php