Re: Date calc/comparisions

I generally do all my date calculations in PG, it's set of functions for
time spans and such are most excellent..

Good luck!

-Mitch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent R. Matzelle" <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>
To: <pgsql-php@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Date calc/comparisions


> --- Mitch Vincent <mvincent@cablespeed.com> wrote:
> > You could do
> >
> > SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM <timestamp>);
> >
> > -- To get epoch, then use PHP to do the date calculation.. You
> > could do the
> > calculation in the database too, though..
> >
> > Check out
> >
>
http://postgresql.crimelabs.net/users-lounge/docs/7.1/user/functions-datetim
> > e.html
>
> Thanks for the response.  Actually I found a slightly better way
> of accomplishing the same thing last night.  I can change the
> PostgreSQL TIMESTAMP to a PHP viable Unix timestamp by
> eliminating the time zone stuff from the end of the string:
>
> $timestamp = "2001-09-05 21:12:45-04" // simulate a PG timestamp
>
> // Eliminates the "-04"
> $timestamp = substr($timestamp, 0, -3);
>
> $unix_time = strtotime($timestamp);
>
> // Now I can convert it:
> $pretty_time = date("Y M d H:i", $unix_time);
>
> Regards,
>
> Brent
>
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