[strtotime('I')]

Thanks for the replies,

 

I would actually prefer it to return false for a string like "I " rather than a date. The code I have is checking for dates embeded in text, and they will always be at the start of a string. Unfortunately the date can be just about any format the users PC has it set to, so I cant look for specific formats. I realise that 100% accuracy is therfore not possible, but 99% will do

 

I did consider it was considering it to be roman numerals, but 'IV', 'V' or 'II' does return false, so I gave up on that idea.

 

For now, I will leave my code checking for 'I<space>' at the start of a string. Not pretty, but I dont have time right now to step through the PHP souce.

 

Anyway,

 

Thanks for the replies

[strtotime('I')]

Hi All,

 

What do you think this should give? :

 

echo strtotime('I');

 

(Thats a capital 'i')

 

On my PHP 5.2.6 and PHP 5.3.3 and  system, it seems to give a time nine hours previously:

 

 

$ cat test.php

<?php

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

$s="I";

echo "strtotime('$s')=".strtotime($s)."\n";

echo "date(strtotime('$s'))=".date(DATE_RFC822,strtotime($s))."\n";

echo "now=".date(DATE_RFC822)."\n";

 

 

$ php test.php

 

strtotime('I')=1377749122

date(strtotime('I'))=Thu, 29 Aug 13 04:05:22 +0000

now=Thu, 29 Aug 13 13:05:22 +0000

 

Anyone know what format of date/time a single capital 'I' is matching? 

 

Cheers!