Infinite Script

Excel stores dates internally as number of days since January 1, 1900. For example: "June 9th, 2011 10:30 AM" would be stored as "40703.4375". 40703 is the number of full days since 01/01/1900 and 0.4375 represents the time (10.5/24 = 0.4375). When you process dates read from an Excel spreadsheet (e.g. using PHPExcel) you often want to convert them into a UNIX timestamp i.e. a number of seconds elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 UTC. Here is a PHP code to do that: Although the code above is written in PHP the function should be very similar in any other language e.g. C# or java. If the provided date is earlier than 1/1/1970 then the minimal timestamp value will be returned. Alternative…