André Medeiros wrote:
> Shawn,
> 
> I think the idea here was to get a timestamp from a date in that
> format he was telling about.
> 
> After replying however, I noticed that strptime is only implemented in
> PHP5. Sorry about that mate.
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote:
>> Merca, Ansta Ltd wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Anyone "dd/mm/yyyy" as a date variable? strtotime - works fine with
>>> "mm/dd/yyyy" but now with "dd/mm/yyyy". (PHP 4.x)
>> setlocale()
>>
>> and then...
>>
>> http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php
>>
>> -Shawn
>>
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Couldn't see any other way.  *nix strtotime is supposed to use locale.

$date = '20/12/1971';
$parts = explode('/', $date);
echo mktime(0 ,0, 0, $d[1], $d[0],$d[2])."\n";

-Shawn