Description:
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No matter what I do, strtotime can't seem to handle dates prior to 1970.
The answer returned is always -1. 

The manual doesn't indicate this fact. 

Reproduce code:
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echo phpversion();
echo "\n------------------\n";

$time1="1/1/1970";
$time2="31-dec-1969";
$time3="31-dec-1949";

echo strtotime($time1);
echo "\n";
echo strtotime($time2);
echo "\n";
echo strtotime($time3);
echo "\n";

Expected result:
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4.3.2
-----------------
28800
-{some integer other than 1} 
-{some bigger integer other than 1} 

Actual result:
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4.3.2
------------------
28800
-1
-1

UNIX timestamps for dates before Jan 1st 1970 are undefined anyway

some platforms treat negative timestamps as dates before 1970 while
others just consider negative values as undefined ... so this is a
'won't fix' problem unless we come up with a portable PHP C-lib ;)

AFAIR this *is* documented in other places in the manual?

Fixed in CVS :)

Hartmut, this was mentionned in strftime() but too specific to make an
entity.