"Wednesday 31st December 1969" - Why am i getting this date? Date Function

Anyone run across this? Is is indicative of the UNIX time on the server or something else? Here's the code I'm using..

 ob_start();
 $internal->parseMailTemplate( $custom->displayPage( 61 ), $authorInfo );
 $timestamp = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();
$thedate2 = date('l dS F Y', (int) $timestamp);

 echo "Date joined: "; print $thedate2;

Code (markup):

When someone adds an account to the website, the join on date is registered into the db. Any ideas?

 

Check what the value of $timestamp actually is.

31st December 1969 is actually one second (or more) before the UNIX Timestamp begins (1st January 1970).

Jay

 

What's the '(int)' bit in the date function?

Jon

 

(int) causes PHP to return the integer part of $timestamp. It is not part of the date function.

 

I just did some testing out of curiosity, and any timestamp between 0 and (60 * 60 * 5) (5 hours) comes up as Dec 31 1969 for me. Is that a time zone issue?

However, the point being, a $timestamp of 0 or null would give you the date Dec 31 1969. So the function getting $timestamp may be returning 0 or null as an error.

- Walkere