1969 Date Conversion Problem

rayjaymurphy

When I try to format a date using the date function, it returns 12/31/1969. This happens on any date I try, not just dates before 1902, as seems to be the case for others who have gotten the same error. Any suggestions? Please help!

I am running PHP on Windows 2000, IIS4.

jerdo

Post the code you are attempting to use.

rayjaymurphy

$this_date = "12/11/2002";
echo date("m/d/Y",$this_date);

Returns:

12/31/1969

Chimera

Try


<? 

$this_date = "12/11/2002"; 
echo date("m/d/Y",strtotime($this_date)); 

?>

rayjaymurphy

That works!! Thank you so much!!

rayjaymurphy

The solution above only works for dates after 1/1/1970! Is there another solution that will include all dates?? Or at least within a 100 year radius??

eriksmoen

I'm not too clear on what you are trying to say, but here might be a cheap way of displaying your results:

$this_date = "12/11/2002";
//echo date("m/d/Y",$this_date);
list($mon,$day,$year) = split('[/]', $this_date);

echo ("$mon/$day/$year"); //or whatever format you want