indexing dates before 1901

[JackyJ]

So i'm running into problems with records that have dates before 1901. This is because the harvester uses strtotime, which uses a unix timestamp. We have several records that are in the 1800's. I noticed there are a number of functions with an adodb_ prefix in front of them that fixed the default php date functions, but there wasn't one for strtotime, which is used for parseDate() inside SchemaPlugin.inc.php.

Anyone else run into this problem?

[asmecher]

Hi JackyJ,

There's no equivalent for the strtotime function because that function converts into a format that can't represent anything before 1970. I haven't tried the harvester with anything before then -- could you describe how far you're getting with it?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[JackyJ]

I haven't look into it too much, but i think if we had a strtotime_largerange type of function then that would be the last missing piece of the puzzle. Everywhere else in the code it seems to have support for the large date range (as well as in the mysql database schema).