variant_date_to_timestamp

(PHP 5)

variant_date_to_timestamp --  Converts a variant date/time value to unix timestamp

Description

int variant_date_to_timestamp ( object variant)

Converts variant from a VT_DATE (or similar) value into a unix timestamp. This allows easier interopability between the unix-ish parts of PHP and COM.

See also variant_date_from_timestamp() for the inverse of this operation, date(), strftime().