I have a web server account that's running MySQL 4.0.22-standard. I have a table with a $DateLong field of type "date" that has dates before 1970. I need to find the day of the week for these dates, which works for the most part with date('D',strtotime($DateLong)). But strtotime() always returns a -1 for pre-1970 dates. Thanks!
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strtotime() before 1970 always -1
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sleipnir214
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That's because strtotime() returns an integer that counts the number of seconds after 19700101 00:00:00. This Unix Epoch timestamp is probably assuming that the world began at that time.
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