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Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 [message #3034 is a reply to message #3032]

Fri, 07 June 2002 21:28

tgaastra

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Are you sure? Have you gone back and looked?

I can put the number as (for instance) March 15 1955, but when I read the profile in again its March 15 1969.

Checking an actual query of the entry in fud2_users comes back with bday being 19690315.

Without digging too much into things, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say its the fmt_year function in register.php.

It uses mktime passed into date to return a formated year, but mktime returns a timestamp, which is incapable (at least under RedHat 7.3 Linux) of representing a date earlier than the epoch.

Take this little snippet of php:
<html>
<head><title>Foo</title></head>
<body>
<?php
print(date("Y", mktime(1,1,1,1,1,1955)));
?>
</body>
</html>

On my system, this prints 1969.

Probably what needs to happen is that fmt_year is going to have to do a little guess work on its own rather than rely on mktime.

If people just use two digits, assume that just like the YEAR format does in SQL that its between 1970 and 2069.

Of course, if you used the DATE format, it would do that for you. Smile

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		Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: tgaastra on Fri, 07 June 2002 19:50
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: hackie on Fri, 07 June 2002 19:54
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: tgaastra on Fri, 07 June 2002 21:28
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: Olliver on Fri, 07 June 2002 21:48
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: hackie on Fri, 07 June 2002 21:47
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: hackie on Fri, 07 June 2002 21:50
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: tgaastra on Fri, 07 June 2002 21:58
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: Ilia on Fri, 07 June 2002 22:36
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: tgaastra on Fri, 07 June 2002 23:15
		Re: Bday code incapable of recording dates before 1969 By: hackie on Fri, 07 June 2002 23:22

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