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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/24/07 20:56
Rob Wilkerson wrote:
> Surprisingly (at least to me), there doesn't seem to be a built-in
> function to validate a date value (like, say, is_date()). Given that,
> is there a best practice for determining whether a value is a valid
> date/time? The values I need to test will likely be unix timestamp
> values and I need to be able to distinguish them as date/time values
> from other integer/numeric values.
>
> What I'm trying to do is use reflection to iterate over the properties
> of an object and insert them into database fields based on their type
> (integers in an INT field, strings in a VARCHAR field, date/time
> values in a DATETIME field). Most are fairly straightforward, but I'm
> not sure how to consistently and accurately identify a datetime value.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Rob
>
Unix timestamps are just integers. You can't differentiate them.
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