Re: Range mktime?

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On Thu, May 18, 2006 6:30 am, Gustav Wiberg wrote:
> I wondew which range the mktime has? (in digits)
> In my case it always start with 1.
> something like
> 1147951344
>
> Is this ALWAYS TRUE (that it would start with 1)

No.

0 1/1/1970 midnight
1 1/1/1970 one second after midnight
2 1/1/1970 two seconds after midnight
3 1/1/1970 three seconds after midnight
.
.
60 1/1/1970 one minute after midnight
120 1/1/1970 two minutes after midnight
240 1/1/1970 four minutes after midnight
.
.
.
1147992736 5/18/2006 about 4 PM or so, give or take
.
.
.
2000000000 5/17/2033 8:33:20 pm
.
.
.
0x7fffffff 1/18/2038 7:14:07 pm, the end of time on 32-bit hardware

<?php echo date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', 0x80000000), "\n"?>

should tell you why

Feel free to try different numbers in decimal and hex in place of
0x80000000 and you will learn something.

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