strtotime Alternative?

[bdichiara]

I have a function to help find the end of a lease. the problem is it uses the Unix Timestamp (which I hate). Is there an alternate way to do this that doesn't return "December 31, 1969" when using dates beyond 2038?

function findLeaseEnd($m,$d,$y,$t){
  $term = ($d == 1) ? ($t - 1) : $t;
	
  $newdate = $y."-".$m."-".$d." + ".$term." months";
  $leaseEnd = date("F t, Y",strtotime($newdate));
	
  return $leaseEnd;
}

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_brian.

 

[sleipnir214]

Have you looked at the PEAR class "Date"?

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

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[jpadie]

and as i believe i found when sleipnir214 jogged my elbow the other day, the date restrictions have been lifted in php >=5.1.0 (or at least that's how i read the manual although it is slightly ambiguous).

 

[sleipnir214]

bdchiara:
The text in question is on the PHP online manual page for strtotime() (

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php):

[tt]Note: The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.) Additionally, not all platforms support negative timestamps, therefore your date range may be limited to no earlier than the Unix epoch. This means that e.g. dates prior to Jan 1, 1970 will not work on Windows, some Linux distributions, and a few other operating systems. PHP 5.1.0 and newer versions overcome this limitation though.[/tt]

I interpret that note differently from jpadie in that I believe the limitation talked-about is specifically dates before 1970. My support for my interpretation is that on my PHP 5.2.0 machine, the script:

<?php
print date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime ('2050-05-05 12:23:56'));
?>

outputs:

1969-12-31 18:00:00



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[jpadie]

that was the ambiguity i was worried about. i was on the verge of testing it. thanks again.

 

[bdichiara]

so, when I researched the Pear class, i ended up at this page:

http://pear.php.net/package/Date/download

Which links me to a download that doesn't exist (or is corrupt when I try to open it).

Am I in the write spot?

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_brian.

 

[bdichiara]

jeez, i can't believe i said write.... i'm losing it..

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_brian.

 

[sleipnir214]

I just downloaded the file at [ignore]

http://download.pear.php.net/package/Date-1.4.7.tgz

[/ignore] and had no problem opening it.



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[jpadie]

can't you just execute the command

pear install Date --alldeps

i'm on a windows platform but i thought the pear command line was cross-platform.