Hey,
Anyone know why this isnt working?

the timestamp:
20030406004941

the function:

function date_str($timestamp) {
$date_str = getdate($timestamp) ;
$year = $date_str["year"] ;
$mon = $date_str["mon"] ;
$mday = $date_str["mday"] ;
$hours = $date_str["hours"] ;
$minutes = $date_str["minutes"] ;
$seconds = $date_str["seconds"] ;

return "$mon/$mday/$year" ;
}



the result:
1/18/2038

thanks in advance

Whats the problem with it?

as far as i know, yesterday was not 1/18/2038

You're obviously using a 32 bit version of PHP. A 64 bit version would correctly compute the date (April 15, 636708; 8:02:21 PM).

It came out as 1/18/2038 on mine aswell.

how can i get a 64 bit version?

Originally posted by Gamenati
how can i get a 64 bit version?

Why do you want to manipulate dates in the 637th millenium?

20030406004941
this is a timestamp for YESTERDAY

No, it isn't. Yesterday would be something like 1049560830.

wait, then MySQL is lying

wait
20030406004941
2003 = year
04 = month
06 = day
00 = hour
49 = min
41 = seconds

Different programs store their timestamps in different formats.

Did you get it to work? Mine shows up as that weird date to, I guess it's the format of the timestamp? :o

<?php

function date_string($timestamp) {
$date_str = getdate($timestamp);
$year = $date_str["year"] ;
$mon = $date_str["mon"] ;
$mday = $date_str["mday"] ;
$hours = $date_str["hours"] ;
$minutes = $date_str["minutes"] ;
$seconds = $date_str["seconds"] ;

return "$mon/$mday/$year" ;
}
?>

<?= date_string(1049560830); ?>


gave me: 4/5/2003

yet


<?= date_string(20030406004941); ?>


gave me:
Warning: Cannot perform date calculation in test.php on line 4
//


I conclude that your time stamp is what is causing your error.
Also, you may actually be running PHP in 64 bit mode, I
can't even get getdate to process your timestamp.

im confused

its a MySQL timestamp

how are you getting the timestamp from mysql?
did you try using UNIX_TIMESTAMP( ... ) around the part where you're getting the time from in the mysql query?

Note for above... If you just want to use the current timestamp, you can use like UNIX_TIMESTAMP() but if you have a date stored in there you'd use UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1997-10-04 22:23:00') for example :)

it says UNIX_TIMESTAMP() is undefined...
how could i make a current timestamp?

nevermind, i just used time()
when i used that the function that i used also worked