[Resolved] Probably simple mktime question

[mrcaveman]

I'm probably blind or stupid, but here we go.

<tr>
<td>Dayd (d):</td>
<td><input name='day' size=2 maxlength=2 value=$day></td>
<td>Month (mm):</td>
<td><input name='month' size=2 maxlength=2 value=$month></td>
<td>Year (yy)</td>
<td><input name='year' size=2 maxlength=2 value=$year></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type=submit value='Kalkuler'></td>
</tr>

I'm trying to put the variables into an mktime() function, but when I compare it with the same date only with numbers in the mktime() fuction they differ.

$sale = mktime(00, 00, 00, $month, $day, $year);
$start = mktime(00, 00, 00, 09, 01, 04);

$sale become 1093989600 and $start become 1070233200.

Why?!?

[LordShryku]

First make sure your variables are exactly the same.

Second, you're going to get funny results using leading zeros on those numbers. Using your example of $start = mktime(00, 00, 00, 09, 01, 04);, if you ran that through the date command, you'd see the wrong date come out.

[root@dragonbox root]# php -r '
$start = mktime(00, 00, 00, 09, 01, 04);
echo date("m/d/Y", $start);
'
12/01/2003
[root@dragonbox root]#

Where as if you strip the leading zeros, it'll come out right.

[root@dragonbox root]# php -r '
$start = mktime(0, 0, 0, 9, 1, 04);
echo date("m/d/Y", $start);
'
09/01/2004
[root@dragonbox root]#

[mrcaveman]

BINGO!

I removed the zeros and now both are 1093989600.

Thanks.