Posted by Christoph Burschka on 01/16/07 09:14

Christoph Burschka schrieb:
> Namely the thirteenth of December 1901, 12:45:52, Pacific Time.
>
> All dates later than this passed in format "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" to the
> strtotime function return the correct unix timestamp value (as can be
> verified by passing it back to date()).
>
> If a date earlier than 1901-12-13 12:45:52 is used, it returns an error.
> I tried this for a while to find the exact cut-off point, and this is it.
>
> Any reason - possibly a limitation of the integer value that is used? I
> didn't find this documented anywhere...
>
> --
> Christoph Burschka

Whoops, I should have checked more closely. In fact this *is* documented
as the minimal value of most dates due to the length of the 32-bit integer.

I never considered that these "Y2K" problems work backwards, too...

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Christoph Burschka

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