[TYPO3-dev] timestamps and dates before 1970

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Seebach schrieb:
> 
> If I recall correctly, this discussion was on how arbitrary dates could
> be stored (eg. also historic and science fiction events), and there was
> never any real consensus.
> But solely for birthday purposes, the PHP-way must be the official way:
> 
> $ php -r 'print(strtotime("1960-12-21 23:10:15")."\n");'
> -284867385
> $ php -r 'print(date("Y-m-d H:i:s",-284867385)."\n");'
> 1960-12-21 23:10:15
> 
> This works back to sometime in 1901. 

This uses negative Unix epoch which doesn't work on all platforms. 
That's why there was a discussion.

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