Call me crazy, but I think that:
$time = 0xffffffff; //largest INT possible
echo date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', $time);
would be very revealing.
On Thu, April 13, 2006 10:26 pm, Suhas wrote:
> This will definitely solve one way but still other is there,
> How to get that -ve number which starts at 1/1/1900 at 00:00 AM = 0
>
> I need to be able to convert back and forth as there are some
> calculations to be done on date field,
>
> But this is very interesting..
> Thx
> SP
>
> On 4/13/06, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Suhas wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have a project that deals with the date time stamps since 1900
>> (and
>> > past), any suggestions about a good class that handles Date Time
>> > Format before 1970. I really like date() function and want
>> something
>> > similar.
>>
>> date() uses Unix timestamps which on most Unix platforms goes from
>> -MAX_INT to MAX_INT which means the date range is actually
>> 12:45:52 12/13/1901 to 07:14:07 01/18/2038. So you might be able to
>> get
>> away with it.
>>
>> You can check it with:
>>
>> echo date("h:i:s m/d/Y",-2147483648);
>> echo date("h:i:s m/d/Y", 2147483647);
>>
>> Windows, not being Unix, doesn't understand that the timestamp can
>> be
>> negative, although I think someone fixed that in PHP 5. In my 11+
>> years
>> of PHP I have yet to run PHP on Windows, so I wouldn't know.
>>
>> -Rasmus
>>
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