--TEST-- Test getdate() function : usage variation - Verifyig by supplying year-wise sample time stamps since Unix epoch time --FILE-- 0, '01 Jan 1971' => 31536000, '01 Jan 1972' => 63072000, '01 Jan 1973' => 94694400, ); // loop through each element of the array for timestamp foreach($inputs as $key =>$value) { echo "\n--$key--\n"; var_dump( getdate($value) ); }; ?> ===DONE=== --EXPECTF-- *** Testing getdate() : usage variation *** --01 Jan 1970-- array(11) { [u"seconds"]=> int(0) [u"minutes"]=> int(30) [u"hours"]=> int(5) [u"mday"]=> int(1) [u"wday"]=> int(4) [u"mon"]=> int(1) [u"year"]=> int(1970) [u"yday"]=> int(0) [u"weekday"]=> unicode(8) "Thursday" [u"month"]=> unicode(7) "January" [0]=> int(0) } --01 Jan 1971-- array(11) { [u"seconds"]=> int(0) [u"minutes"]=> int(30) [u"hours"]=> int(5) [u"mday"]=> int(1) [u"wday"]=> int(5) [u"mon"]=> int(1) [u"year"]=> int(1971) [u"yday"]=> int(0) [u"weekday"]=> unicode(6) "Friday" [u"month"]=> unicode(7) "January" [0]=> int(31536000) } --01 Jan 1972-- array(11) { [u"seconds"]=> int(0) [u"minutes"]=> int(30) [u"hours"]=> int(5) [u"mday"]=> int(1) [u"wday"]=> int(6) [u"mon"]=> int(1) [u"year"]=> int(1972) [u"yday"]=> int(0) [u"weekday"]=> unicode(8) "Saturday" [u"month"]=> unicode(7) "January" [0]=> int(63072000) } --01 Jan 1973-- array(11) { [u"seconds"]=> int(0) [u"minutes"]=> int(30) [u"hours"]=> int(5) [u"mday"]=> int(1) [u"wday"]=> int(1) [u"mon"]=> int(1) [u"year"]=> int(1973) [u"yday"]=> int(0) [u"weekday"]=> unicode(6) "Monday" [u"month"]=> unicode(7) "January" [0]=> int(94694400) } ===DONE===