strtotime issues

[cooldude832]

I've got some funky results comming on strtotime function

<?php
		echo "Start date: ".date("m-d-Y", strtotime($data['date_start']))."<br />";
		echo "Start date: ".$data['date_start']."<br />";
		echo "End date: ".date("m-d-Y", strtotime($data['date_end']))."<br />";
		echo "End Date: ".$data['date_end']."<Br />";
?>

$data is the raw input in the form mm-dd-yyyy

and this is what it returns

 

Start date: 07-11-2025 (Strtotime value)

Start date: 20-02-1988  (Input)

 

End date: 07-20-2025 (strtotime value)

End Date: 20-02-1997 (input)

 

Any ideas?

[rajivgonsalves]

it does seem to come right for me which version of php your using.. just try

 

echo date("m-d-Y",strtotime("20-02-1988"));

[cooldude832]

it returns the same incorrect date as the inputted source (07-11-2025)

version is 4.4.7

 

02-20-1988 returns: 01-08-2009

20-02-1988 returns: 07-11-2025

1988-02-20 returns: 02-20-1988

1988-20-02 returns: 08-02-1989

 

so I think I need to make it yyyy-mm-dd

[rajivgonsalves]

is your inputed source mm-dd-yyyy if so why your using the date function with "m-d-Y" it better that u just print the row

[cooldude832]

I have to verify its a valid date I'm using m-d-y to read it but its going to date("u") so it needs to be accurate

[kenrbnsn]

The strtotime() function doesn't know how to interpret the date when the format is dd-mm-yyyy, so it is getting confused. Your best bet is to convert the input date into something strtotime() understands:

<?php
$input_date = '20-02-1988';
list ($day,$mon,$yr) = explode('-',$input_date);
comp_date = $yr . '-' . $mon . '-' . $day;
?>

 

Ken

[cooldude832]

I'll just reword it so they input as YYYY-mm-dd and because i just need to verify its equal to or greater than today i should be fine

[jitesh]

strtotime does not understand your "date type" given as input.