Question

I have a little problem with timestamp. When i try to get current date with

$datestring = date("Y-m-d");

I get the correct date as 2012-11-14.

But with this little script

$timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("Y"), date("m"), date("d"));
echo $timestamp . "<br />";
echo gmdate("Y-m-d", $timestamp);

I get 2182-08-10 at the end. Any ideas?

Followup Question

With

$timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));
echo $timestamp . "<br />";
echo gmdate("Y-m-d", $timestamp);

I now get 2012-11-13. Why is that?

Answer 1

The function signature is:

mktime ([ int $hour = date("H") [, int $minute = date("i") [, int $second = date("s") [, int $month = date("n") [, int $day = date("j") [, int $year = date("Y") [, int $is_dst = -1 ]]]]]]] )

The order is hour, minute, second, month, day, year, not year, month, day.

Yay American conventions (?).