Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> 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.
>
Fixed that for me:

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

> 
> -Shawn