Posted by Mattias Thorslund on 03/07/05 07:22

Check out:
http://pear.php.net/package/Date

According to the description, it lets you compare dates that date pre
1970 and post 2038.

/Mattias

(If I could only get off ezmlm's "suspicious user list". I think there
isn't much I can do, it's my ISP rejecting some PHP list postings.)

Kevin wrote:

>Greetings Mr Mattias,
>
>I wish it was so simple. Because the dates that may need calculating can be
>before 1970.
>
>THis function I have.. and it's semi-working, but I've noticed
>irregularities during the conversion.
>
>Thanks for your suggestion!!
>
>Yours,
>
>Kevin
>"Mattias Thorslund" <mattias@inreach.com> wrote in message
>news:422BCBDA.1090309@inreach.com...
>
>
>>M. Sokolewicz wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>well, you can simply use the unix timestamp, since the amount of days
>>>/ seconds since 0 AD/BC will be a constant (it won't change, trust
>>>me), you can simply add it to that, and add a wrapper function to
>>>php's time(). You'll be working with VERY big numbers in that case, so
>>>you can also do it the other way around; store the amount of DAYS
>>>since 0 AD/BC till Jan 1st 1970, add time()/86400, and you'll have the
>>>amount of days since 0 AD/BC in an integer (or float, depending on how
>>>many days that really are).
>>>
>>>You'll just need to find that constant somewhere :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Can't be too hard to calculate it:
>>
>>1970 * 365 + 1 day for each leap year. Note the rules for leap year, of
>>course.
>>
>>/Mattias
>>
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