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--- datetime:adodb_date [2015/11/26 15:25] – mnewnham
+++ v5:datetime:adodb_date [2016/01/13 02:12] – ↷ Page moved from datetime:adodb_date to v5:datetime:adodb_date mnewnham
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 ===== Description =====
-This function converts a timestamp to a formatted local date. If ''$timestamp'' is not defined, the current timestamp is used. Unlike the function date(), it supports dates outside the 1901 to 2038 range.
+This function converts a timestamp to a formatted local date. If ''$timestamp'' is not defined, the current timestamp is used. Unlike the function date(), it supports dates outside the 1901 to 2038 range. To produce a date prior to the epoch date, a negative number of seconds prior to that number can be provided
+-------------------------------------
+===== Usage ======
+<code php>
+print adodb_date('d/m/Y');
+/*
+* Prints 03/12/2015
+*/
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+print adodb_date('d/m/Y',0);
+/*
+* Prints 12/31/1969
+*/
+print adodb_date('d/m/Y', -27454896000);
+/*
+* Prints 12/21/1099
+*/
+</code>
+===== Available Formats =====
 The format fields that adodb_date supports: