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Bug #15455 date() fails with negative timestamps
Submitted: 2002-02-08 14:45 UTC Modified: 2002-02-08 17:47 UTC
From: dgw at qlogic dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 4.1.1 OS: Windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-02-08 14:45 UTC] dgw at qlogic dot net 
Simple to reproduce, only on windows:

$date = mktime(0,0,0,5,5,1965);
echo date('d-m-Y', $date);

This happens with timestamps before 01/01/1970 that results in a negative number (like birth dates, for example).

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 [2002-02-08 15:29 UTC] derick@php.net 
It's a limitation in windows' date routines. I'm afraid we can little do about it for now.

Derick
 [2002-02-08 17:47 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Just for clarification:

"localtime returns a pointer to the structure result. If the value in timer represents a date before midnight, January 1, 1970, localtime returns NULL." - right from the MSDN. And a NULL value can't be used to turn into something meaningful.
 
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