date issue

[Anon]

I have this code, which takes a date entered into a form mm/dd/yy and converts it to an acceptable mysql date format, however any date with a year prior to 1970 fails. Here's the code:

$convdate = strtotime("$formDate");
$intDate = date("Y-m-d H:i","$convdate");

Any help is appreciated.

[cordex]

strtotime() converts the date from mm/dd/yy to unix timestamp.
unix timestamp is the number of seconds since 1970.
date() cannot handle a negative timestamp.

Thus and therefore, $convdate is not a valid timestamp for dates prior to 1970 and will return an error.

[Anon]

thank you, is there another function I could use to easily convert the mm/dd/yy date to a mysql compatible format?