On Monday 10 March 2008, Samuel Marshall wrote: > I use PayPal as my ecommerce solution and I have a PHP script that captures > variables posted from PayPal to populate my database. The time variable > string is sent in the following format: HH:MM:SS DD Mmm YY, YYYY PST. The > script worked fine but since I upgraded to PHP5 the dates inputted into my > database (MySQL) are showing some date in 1969. Can anyone say what is > causing this or how to correct it? Thanks. > > Samuel Marshall PHP's error value for dates translates to 6 PM 31 December 1969 when formatted, that is, right before the Epoc. That happens when you feed strtotime a string it can't parse, for instance. Looking at the string you list, the year is listed twice. I very much doubt strtotime can grok that. You'll need to do at least some manual parsing of the date string. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
