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Bug #20130 strtotime return -1 for date more than year 2038
Submitted: 2002-10-27 20:54 UTC Modified: 2002-10-30 00:36 UTC
From: yahya at titisb dot com dot my Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: windows 98
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-10-27 20:54 UTC] yahya at titisb dot com dot my 
echo strtotime("2039-01-01");

--it will return -1

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 [2002-10-27 21:00 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

unix timestamps are only good till about year 2038.
 [2002-10-30 00:32 UTC] rjames at yahoo-inc dot com 
Don't brush off the problem because the underlying C code is short sighted.  Switch to a better date-time structure.
 [2002-10-30 00:33 UTC] derick@php.net 
Please come up with a good implementation then, which works cross-platform, for all c libraires... It's not an easy fix, and I feel we shouldnt even start on this.

Derick
 [2002-10-30 00:36 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
And such functions exist, but strtotime() is specifically documented to return a unix timestamp.  See php.net/calendar and specially the julian functions.
 
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