[SOLVED] strtotime function anomaly

[tqla]

Maybe it's my server but strtotime() is returning a funky result for dates with high years.

 

This returns the correct format of "01-01-2010"

<?php
$originalDate = '2010-01-01';
$date = date("m-d-Y", strtotime($originalDate));
echo $date; // prints 01-01-2010
?>

 

However, this returns "12-31-1969"

<?php
$originalDate = '2050-01-01';
$date = date("m-d-Y", strtotime($originalDate));
echo $date; // prints 12-31-1969
?>

 

Can somebody shed some light on this? Thanks.

 

Using PHP 5.2.8

[bluesoul]

From php.net's strtotime page.

 

Note: The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 UTC to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 UTC. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.)

[premiso]

Ah 1969, a very good year...

 

Note: The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 UTC to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 UTC. (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.

 

From strtotime

 

Although you are using 5.2, your system can be preventing it, if your system does not support greater than 2038 that function will not support it.

[tqla]

Thanks guys. Hmmm. This is for a date form that I am creating. There's no way in heck that someone will input a year that far in advance so I will flag all entries above 2037 as invalid.