Posted 5 years ago #
hi, i'm building a site that chronicles events and i want to be able to edit the timestamp to reflect the date of the incident. some of the incidents i'm putting into the site go well back into the 1800's.
i have had much success with everything back to 1900, but once i input an event (as a post) and then try to edit the timestamp with Date XX, 18XX, the output shows December 31, 1969.
any thoughts ? here is the sitefor reference
Posted 5 years ago #
any thoughts ?
Store the date in a custom field, add tag to display custom field to theme?
There are some plugins (that a search should turn up) that can simplify setting and displaying custom fields if necessary.
PHP in general and WordPress in specific does not support pre-1900 dates. There are workarounds, but they are not minor.
See here for more info:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/27367?replies=23#post-194153
Posted 5 years ago #
i looked at both of those. the workaround is a little over my head, but i will keep working on it (lots of folks said it worked for them). i searched for plugins, but found nothing really like what i'm needing.
if the epoch hap'd in 1969, why does it only affect dates prior to 1900 on my site ?
I have no idea. I've never been able to put in anything pre-1970.
The epoch starts on Jan 1st, 1970. The reason you see 1969 is due to time zone shifts.
Posted 5 years ago #
cool. thanks !
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