Topic: negative timestamps converting to date

[c_shelswell]

I've been given a database where they've decided to put the date of birth as a timestamp. They've delt with dates prior to 1970 by using negative numbers. I'm trying to convert them back to real dates is there and easy way of converting the negative numbers back?

Cheers

[richardw]

Try using substr, this works for me

$daystring = $row["birthdate"];
$month = substr($daystring, 4, 2);
$day = substr($daystring, 6, 2);
$year = substr($daystring, 0, 4);

Best,