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[Brian O'Connor]

I use strtotime to convert dates out of a database into more visually
pleasing forms :)

On 10/1/05, Jonathan <hendler at simmons.edu> wrote:
>
> strtotime() is also fun!
>
> Brian O'Connor wrote:
>
> > I prefer to use mktime for converting dates, but I guess that's just a
> > preference.
> >
> > $dateConversion = date('Y-m-d', mktime(date('H')-4, date('i'),
> > date('s'), date('m'), date('d'), date('Y')));
> >
> > On 10/1/05, *harvey* < list at harveyk.com <mailto:list at harveyk.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Of course, not sure why I didn't see that.
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> >
> > At 09:39 AM 10/1/2005, Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > >There is an error in your code.
> > >You will always have the correctly adjusted hour because of
> > >
> > > date("g:i:s a",
> > >time() + $timeadjust)
> > >
> > >
> > >But your date will be wrong for 4 hours every day because of
> > >
> > >echo date("l") . "<br>" . date("F jS, Y")
> > >
> > >
> > >You need to add your time adjust to each of those dates.
> > >Try
> > >$adjusted_time = time() + $timeadjust;
> > >
> > >echo date("l",$adjusted_time) . "<br>" . date("F jS,
> > Y",$adjusted_time);
> > >date("g:i:s a", $adjusted_time) ;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >harvey wrote:
> > >
> > > >How is this possible? I have a site hosted at Yahoo and am
> > using the
> > > >following code to display the date/time at the top of the page.
> > Works
> > > >fine, except-- every once in a while, the date is one full day
> > off.
> > > >For example, on the 28th of this month at about 10pm, the page said
> > > >it was the 29th at 10pm. Later on, it was fine and said the right
> > > >date. Yahoo, of course, says it's not them, but what else could it
> > > >be? Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > >$hourdiff = "-4";
> > > >$timeadjust = ($hourdiff * 60 * 60);
> > > >echo date("l") . "<br>" . date("F jS, Y") . "<br>" .
> > date("g:i:s a",
> > > >time() + $timeadjust) . "&nbsp;NYC";
> > > >
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