Posted by Tim Roberts on 01/16/07 20:03

Christoph Burschka <christoph.burschka@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

>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...
>
>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...

The upper end of this range is coming up as well, in the middle of
February, 2038.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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