getDate Returns Invalid Date

bwbarnet

I have the following code snippet.

$today = getdate();
$month = $today['mon'];
$mday = $today['mday'];
$year = $today['year'];

For some reason, and I have not been able to reproduce it (all of my tests have worked correctly), occassionally, this will return 01-01-0019 as the current day.

It also seems to happen in a batches as if something was temporarily wrong although nothing is reported in log file even with E_ALL as php.ini setting (according to datetimestamps on the database insert). Webserver and database server are on different machines but are synced in time nightly by a central server.

Info about my setup
PHP 4.3.1
Oracle 9i using OCI 8 driver
PHP ADOdb 3.1.1
Apache 1.3.27
Linux Redhat Advanced Server build 2.4.18-3

Thanks in advance for any help,
Bradley B

planetsim

Well im on PHP 4.3.2, Apache 2.0.39, WinXP and tested it over and over and never got any result like yours.

However try using mktime in the getdate();

$today = getdate(mktime());
$month = $today['mon'];
$mday = $today['mday'];
$year = $today['year'];

bwbarnet

ok....I have made the change since it did not break anything during my testing.

I will continue to monitor for the next week or so and report back if I have any more of these dates show up in the database.

Thanks.

bwbarnet

The problem turns out to be a bad javascript code that disabled the input element form when doing an update.

Thanks for the help...and I hate legacy code that is poorly written.

--Bradley B