[FX.php List] Find record using 'date'

[Kevin Futter]

On 10/5/07 9:15 AM, "Michael Ward" <headhoncho at customikesolutions.com>
wrote:

> Hi Roger & Keith,
> 
>> We have a similar problem in that since upgrading to FMSA v8 for production
>> (which involved setting up an Xserve from scratch), our dates all come out of
>> the db in the US format, despite being entered into the database as
>> mm/dd/yyyy. For display purposes I just manipulate it with PHP, but I still
>> can¹t figure out why it¹s doing it, other than some mysterious server setting
>> (FM or OS X) that we neglected to configure at setup time.
> 
> It's the way FileMaker sends dates... it is _always_ in the US format, no
> matter how it is displayed/entered.
> 
> I use this PHP code to display it the way I want it (probably similar to yours
> Keith)  
> 
> echo date('j/n/Y',strtotime(yourDateValueFromFX))
>>  
> 
Really? It wasn¹t like that at all on our G5 test box, only when we rebuilt
the Xserve and moved FMSA across to it.  And it certainly wasn¹t like that
with FMU6 prior the upgrade either.  Thanks for the code example too, I
think I¹m doing it the hard way (splitting the string, chopping it around
etc).

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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