PHP:: Pre-1970 Dates :: Functions Explored for a task

The purpose of this post is to collect different possible solutions or custom functions available on net or shared for my query in Web Development forum to solve a issue with dates before 1970.

Scenario: Today at work, I had a scenario where I have to fetch the dates in 1/1/1900 format and insert it to a new database as 1900-01-01. The issue i face is my date before 1970 gets reset to 01-01-1970.

Input date: 1/1/1900
Output desired as inserted in database : 1900-01-01

First Efforts to resolve , but didnt worked out is :-
=> Tried strtotime()  and date()+mktime() but all gave date reset to 1970, Jan, 01.

• strftime(“%Y-%m-%d”, strtotime($timestamp));
• date(‘Y-M-d’, mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1900))

=> safestrtotime() :: There is safestrtotime in the strtotime() page in php.net which seems to work but the dates is not precisely the same anymore . For eg:- strftime(“%Y-%m-%d”, safestrtotime($timestamp)); gave 1901-12-14.

=> safestrtotime function was as below:

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Below Function is available in strtotime function documentation page in www.php.net

	function safestrtotime($strInput) {
        $iVal = -1;
        for ($i=1900; $i<=1969; $i++) {
            # Check for this year string in date
            $strYear = (string)$i;
            if (!(strpos($strInput, $strYear)===false)) {
                $replYear = $strYear;
                $yearSkew = 1970 - $i;
                $strInput = str_replace($strYear, "1970", $strInput);
            };
        };
        $iVal = strtotime($strInput);
        if ($yearSkew > 0) {
            $numSecs = (60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * $yearSkew);
            $iVal = $iVal - $numSecs;
            $numLeapYears = 0;        # Work out number of leap years in period
            for ($j=$replYear; $j<=1969; $j++) {
                $thisYear = $j;
                $isLeapYear = false;
                # Is div by 4?
                if (($thisYear % 4) == 0) {
                    $isLeapYear = true;
                };
                # Is div by 100?
                if (($thisYear % 100) == 0) {
                    $isLeapYear = false;
                };
                # Is div by 1000?
                if (($thisYear % 1000) == 0) {
                    $isLeapYear = true;
                };
                if ($isLeapYear == true) {
                    $numLeapYears++;
                };
            };
            $iVal = $iVal - (60 * 60 * 24 * $numLeapYears);
        };
        return($iVal);
    }

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=>  Another function using basetime explored is as below:-

	function Hsafestrtotime ($s) {
	  $basetime = 0;
	  if (preg_match ("/19(\d\d)/", $s, $m) && ($m[1] < 70)) {
	    $s = preg_replace ("/19\d\d/", 1900 + $m[1]+68, $s);
	    $basetime = 0x80000000 + 1570448;
	  }
	  return $basetime + strtotime ($s);
	}

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	function convertTime($dformat,$sformat,$ts) {
		    extract(strptime($ts,$sformat));
		    return strftime($dformat,mktime(
		                                  intval($tm_hour),
		                                  intval($tm_min),
		                                  intval($tm_sec),
		                                  intval($tm_mon)+1,
		                                  intval($tm_mday),
		                                  intval($tm_year)+1900
		                                ));
   }