Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/11/07 12:04

Vincent Delporte wrote:

> //Doesn't work because server set up to assume mm/dd/yyyy!
> $new_dateorig = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($dateorig));

Try:

$dateRE = '/^(\d\d?)[\/\-\.](\d\d?)[\/\-\.](\d\d(\d\d)?\)$/';
$tryStrToTime = TRUE;

if (preg_match($dateRE, $dateorig, $m))
{
if (strlen($m[3])==2)
$m[3] += 39<=(int)$m[3] ? 1900 : 2000;
$date_ts = @mktime(0, 0, 0, $m[2], $m[1], $m[3]);
if ($date_ts!==FALSE)
$tryStrToTime = FALSE;
}
if ($tryStrToTime)
$date_ts = strtotime($dateorig);

This will parse dates in the normal d/m/y format (even allowing for 2
digit years, treating '/00' to '/38' as 2000 to 2038, and '/39' to '/99'
as 1939 to 1999), with various separators allowed (/.-), but if they don't
fit that format, or that doesn't make sense (e.g. month > 12), then it
passes the date over to strtotime() which can deal with some very loose
date formats (e.g. 'yesterday', 'next Tuesday').

[Note: if you actually want to specify a date range within AD 10 to AD 99
(i.e. two digit years in the first century AD), you can achieve this by
left-padding the year with zeros. e.g. 01/01/099 for the 1st of January,
99 AD. However, on most operating systems, the timestamp does not have a
range long enough to cover such dates. e.g. 32-bit Unix timestamps run
from 13 Dec 1901 until 19 Jan 2038. Hopefully 64-bit will save us! See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_Problem]

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