In another post I told about PHP not being able to create dates earlier than
1970, so until I can get PHP to do so, I am using a small perlscript to do it.
It looks like this:
// $in[date] is something like "1943-10-12";
$unixtime = shell_exec("bin/converttime.pl $in[date]");
Problem is, this fails once ever twenty times or so - shell_exec() doesn't
return anything. This is true of another place where I use shell_exec() to run
/usr/bin/cal so I don't think the problem is with the application I am trying
to execute.
Could it be a memory issue?
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Sandman[.net]
1970, so until I can get PHP to do so, I am using a small perlscript to do it.
It looks like this:
// $in[date] is something like "1943-10-12";
$unixtime = shell_exec("bin/converttime.pl $in[date]");
Problem is, this fails once ever twenty times or so - shell_exec() doesn't
return anything. This is true of another place where I use shell_exec() to run
/usr/bin/cal so I don't think the problem is with the application I am trying
to execute.
Could it be a memory issue?
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Sandman[.net]