date problem

Hi,

Why does the following code print '00', surely it should print '08', I'm
baffled!

date("H", mktime(8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));

Thanks for your help

For me, on Windows, it won't work because Windows won't do anything prior to
1970.

On linux, I get 17 as the result. If I change the year to 2000, then I get
08 on both.

John


"Shaun" <shaun@mania.plus.com> wrote in message
news:20030924160719.11919.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> Hi,
>
> Why does the following code print '00', surely it should print '08', I'm
> baffled!
>
> date("H", mktime(8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
>
> Thanks for your help

From the documentation:

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php

"Date with year, month and day equal to zero is considered
illegal (otherwise it what be regarded as 30.11.1999, which
would be strange behavior)."

I think the point here to think about is that the date(), time(), and
mktime() functions all work with timestamps which happen to all function
with respect to the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970)

Cheers,
Rob.

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:26, John wrote:
> For me, on Windows, it won't work because Windows won't do anything prior to
> 1970.
>
> On linux, I get 17 as the result. If I change the year to 2000, then I get
> 08 on both.
>
> John
>
>
> "Shaun" <shaun@mania.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:20030924160719.11919.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why does the following code print '00', surely it should print '08', I'm
> > baffled!
> >
> > date("H", mktime(8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
> >
> > Thanks for your help
>
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