PHP date format - Im about ready to break something
holy crud - why is working with dates SOOOOOOO frustrating in PHP.

I've got a standard "US" way of expressing a date - 06/29/1967 or 6-29-67

strtotime() and create_date() and date() or date_format() ALL choke on this.

I JUST WANT TO INSERT A CORRECT DATE INTO A DB AND RETURN IT... WTF!!!!!

the db is MySQl - storing a date as yyyy-mm-dd.

please dont anyone tell me to 'store my dates as epoch time stamps or integers. I'm not going to changes my db just to accommodate the idiocy that is UNIX time....

however - i'd appreciate some clear explanation on how to format a date for PHP.

thank you - rant over....I am at peace.
PHP date format - Im about ready to break something
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holy crud - why is working with dates SOOOOOOO frustrating in PHP.

I've got a standard "US" way of expressing a date - 06/29/1967 or 6-29-67

strtotime() and create_date() and date() or date_format() ALL choke on this.

I JUST WANT TO INSERT A CORRECT DATE INTO A DB AND RETURN IT... WTF!!!!!

the db is MySQl - storing a date as yyyy-mm-dd.

please dont anyone tell me to 'store my dates as epoch time stamps or integers. I'm not going to changes my db just to accommodate the idiocy that is UNIX time....

however - i'd appreciate some clear explanation on how to format a date for PHP.

thank you - rant over....I am at peace.