Advise on Best Way To Enter A Birthday on a Form

[TecTao]

Before I go digging around for code or conversion to unix time stamp, I'm curious how many of you have a birthday entry on a form which is the least hassle for the person filling out the form. For example

 

a text box and they can enter 12/1/1992 or 12/1/92 or 12-1-1992

 

or three text boxes for month, day and year and if so, require an 01 or a 08 or 4 characters for year.

 

The second method with three boxes would easily convert to a date stamp entry on the other hand if there is a php conversion that would convert any format (12/1/1992, 12/01/92, etc) to a unix time stamp that would make it easier for the person filling out the form.

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas or help.

Mike

[Adam]

There's too many different ways of writing dates to reliably convert it. Can you tell me what date this is: "01/02/03"? Use select boxes.

[TecTao]

yes that is what I was afraid of, long and short western time, European time with the year first.  Guess I'll go with the 3 text box method and force either 2 or 4 characters.  Thanks.

[voip03]

It mainly depends on where the End User are. (Depend on what part of the world they are in)