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Getting time() read out from a prior date

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:29 pm
by HiddenS3crets
I want to get the type of output that

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<?php
echo time();
?>
outputs using prior months and years, like the time() output for April 2005, December 2004, etc

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:31 pm
by John Cartwright
date()

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<?php echo date('m d Y', time()); ?>

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:34 pm
by HiddenS3crets
No, that's not what i want. I need to get timestamps from past dates, not the current date

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:35 pm
by John Cartwright
oh sorry

use strtotime()

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:02 pm
by josh
http://www.php.net/mktime

so you aren't relying on the wording of the time