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Thu, 06 October 2011 09:00

alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX
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El 02/10/2011 15:00, Michael Joel escribió/wrote:
> Is there a better way to compare dates than breaking a date into day,
> month, year and comparing each part?
> I need to know if a date (say 10/03/2011) is before another date in
> the same format. Direct comparison doesn't work.

Doing maths with strings is normally complicated. PHP provides two
native formats to handle dates: Unix timestamps and DateTime objects.
Both allow direct comparison with the "<" operator.

var_dump(new DateTime('2011-03-10') < new DateTime('2011-03-31'));
var_dump(strtotime('2011-03-10') < strtotime('2011-03-31'));

bool(true)
bool(true)

Full reference can be found at
http://es2.php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php

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		comparing dates? By: Michael Joel on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:00
		Re: comparing dates? By: houghi on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:43
		Re: comparing dates? By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 02 October 2011 13:58
		Re: comparing dates? By: Doug Miller on Sun, 02 October 2011 16:36
		Re: comparing dates? By: gordonb.wr5h4 on Mon, 03 October 2011 04:54
		Re: comparing dates? By: Doug Miller on Mon, 03 October 2011 15:50
		Re: comparing dates? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 03 October 2011 18:59
		Re: comparing dates? By: bobmct on Tue, 04 October 2011 00:31
		Re: comparing dates? By: Michael Joel on Tue, 04 October 2011 13:27
		Re: comparing dates? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 04 October 2011 14:43
		Re: comparing dates? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 06 October 2011 09:00

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