strtotime() pre-1970 ?

[Baron Samedi]

if I code

$birth = strtotime('1 April 1950');

then $birth = -1, I guess that this is because time "began" on 1st Jan,
1970. (although I seem to remember a few good times before that).

So, what's the easiest way to find out how many days old I am (exactly,
please, not just taking 1 April 1970 and adding 20 *365, which does not
account for leap years?)

Thanks in advance.

[Markus Ernst]

Baron Samedi schrieb:

if I code

$birth = strtotime('1 April 1950');

then $birth = -1, I guess that this is because time "began" on 1st Jan,
1970. (although I seem to remember a few good times before that).

So, what's the easiest way to find out how many days old I am (exactly,
please, not just taking 1 April 1970 and adding 20 *365, which does not
account for leap years?)

Thanks in advance.

Have a look at the safestrtotime() function suggested in the user
contributed notes in the PHP manual:
http://ch2.php.net/manual/de/functio...time.php#54564

HTH
Markus

[Baron Samedi]

Markus Ernst wrote:

Baron Samedi schrieb:

if I code

$birth = strtotime('1 April 1950');

then $birth = -1, I guess that this is because time "began" on 1st Jan,
1970. (although I seem to remember a few good times before that).

So, what's the easiest way to find out how many days old I am (exactly,
please, not just taking 1 April 1970 and adding 20 *365, which does not
account for leap years?)

Thanks in advance.

Have a look at the safestrtotime() function suggested in the user
contributed notes in the PHP manual:
http://ch2.php.net/manual/de/functio...time.php#54564

Thanks, that wokred a treat!