How to save dates older than timestamp in PHP

Question

This should be an easy one but I just can\'t find the answer.

I have an input field in which the user enters his birthay date (DD.MM.YYYY) and with strtotime() I ins

Answer 1

You should use the DateTime object when handling dates and times in PHP. It is very flexible when parsing date formats, it can calculate the difference between two dates and it has no 1970 or 2038 problem.