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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:41:53+00:00

Im receiving data with a created time field given in a unix timestamp format

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Im receiving data with a created time field given in a unix timestamp format for example “1251324809” which to my understanding is the amount of time elapsed since the epoch, 1970.

Ive got a DATETIME formatted field in a MYSQL table, and im using this to return the UNIX time to a YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format:

date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);

and then storing it in the database. The problem is some of my dates are being stored accurately and some of them are being stored as 1970-01-01 02:00:00, its only a small percentage of the data but i need to know why? Am i perhaps receiving the data incorrectly sometimes?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Am i perhaps receiving the data incorrectly sometimes?

    Probably. January 1st, 1970 points to $timestamp being zero or a value that can’t be parsed as a time stamp.

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