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>    (PHP 3&#62;= 3.0.12, PHP 4 )</P
>strtotime&nbsp;--&nbsp;
     Parse about any English textual datetime description into a UNIX
     timestamp
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>int <B
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>strtotime</B
> ( string time [, int now])<BR
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>&#13;     The function expects to be given a string containing an English date
     format and will try to parse that format into a UNIX timestamp relative
     to the timestamp given in <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>now</I
></TT
>, or the current time
     if none is supplied. Upon failure, <TT
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>&#13;     Because <B
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>strtotime()</B
> behaves according to GNU
     date syntax, have a look at the GNU manual page titled
     <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_7.html"
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     Described there is valid syntax for the <TT
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>time</I
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>Example 1. <B
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>echo strtotime ("now"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("10 September 2000"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 day"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("next Thursday"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("last Monday"), "\n";</PRE
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>Example 2. Checking for failure</B
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>$str = 'Not Good';
if (($timestamp = strtotime($str)) === -1) {
    echo "The string ($str) is bogus";
} else {
    echo "$str == ". date('l dS of F Y h:i:s A',$timestamp);
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      The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec
      1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are
      the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for
      a 32-bit signed integer.)
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