mktime and negative timestamps (on linux, not windows).

[Sugapablo]

From the manual, it seems negative timestamps should work on Linux, just
not Windows.

But anything I try before 1970, (i.e. a negative timestamp) is giving me
12/31/1969.

Is this right?

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[Peter van Schie]

Re: mktime and negative timestamps (on linux, not windows).

Sugapablo wrote:[color=blue]
> From the manual, it seems negative timestamps should work on Linux, just
> not Windows.
>
> But anything I try before 1970, (i.e. a negative timestamp) is giving me
> 12/31/1969.
>
> Is this right?
>[/color]

Yes mktime doesn't support dates before 1970 and after 2037.
If you really need it, you could use an extension like:

http://nl2.php.net/calendar

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[Carl]

Re: mktime and negative timestamps (on linux, not windows).

Sugapablo wrote:[color=blue]
> From the manual, it seems negative timestamps should work on Linux, just
> not Windows.
>
> But anything I try before 1970, (i.e. a negative timestamp) is giving me
> 12/31/1969.
>
> Is this right?
>[/color]

How exactly are you setting the timestamp value?

The following works fine for me (FreeBSD):

$timeStamp = mktime(0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1965);
echo date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A", $timeStamp);

prints "Friday 01st of January 1965 12:00:01 AM"